This book explores how English is used in periphery communities, while subtly resisting the linguistic imperialism from the global ELT enterprise.
1. Adopting a critical perspective on pedagogy
2. Challenges in researching resistance
3. Resistance to English in historical perspective
4. Conflicting curricula: interrogating student opposition
5. Competing pedagogies: understanding teacher opposition
6. Clashing codes: negotiating classroom interacton
7. Contrasting literacies: appropriating academic texts
8. The politics and pedagogy of appropriating discourses