Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching - Paperback

by William Simpson (Author)

This book illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught, and is of interest to advanced students, scholars and professionals within applied linguistics, TESOL, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, language economics and related areas.

Author Biography

William Simpson is a Junior Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts Department of Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has published work on language education, ideology, and political economy in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, as well as in special issues of Language Sciences, and Language and Intercultural Communication.