TY - JOUR
T1 - Is second language teaching enslavement or empowerment?
T2 - Insights from an Hegelian perspective
AU - Wu, M.M.F.
N1 - Dr Manfred Man-fat WU is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Open and Innovative Education, School of Open Learning, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. His publications focus on Hegel, and cover a range of topics, including philosophy of language and philosophy of education.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Whether second language (L2) teaching contributes to the enslavement or empowerment of learners has become a branch in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages research. More and more discussions are emerging, and they tend to base on more and more diverse theoretical frameworks. This article aims to shed light on this issue by exploring it from a Hegelian framework of language. Among Hegel’s theories of language, two notions, namely, mutual recognition and universalisation of culture are selected for discussions. The conclusion is that based on Hegel’s theories of language L2 teaching has a stronger tendency of contributing to the empowerment of learners.
AB - Whether second language (L2) teaching contributes to the enslavement or empowerment of learners has become a branch in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages research. More and more discussions are emerging, and they tend to base on more and more diverse theoretical frameworks. This article aims to shed light on this issue by exploring it from a Hegelian framework of language. Among Hegel’s theories of language, two notions, namely, mutual recognition and universalisation of culture are selected for discussions. The conclusion is that based on Hegel’s theories of language L2 teaching has a stronger tendency of contributing to the empowerment of learners.
KW - Hegel, philosophy, second language teaching, enslavement, empowerment, linguistic imperialism, power
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017651823&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00131857.2017.1317626
DO - 10.1080/00131857.2017.1317626
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017651823
SN - 0013-1857
VL - 50
SP - 39
EP - 48
JO - Educational Philosophy and Theory
JF - Educational Philosophy and Theory
IS - 1
ER -