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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professionalism and Myths in TESOL</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Phillipson<br>
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TESOL, an 'international association', and its 'global partner' the British Council, pursue government-defined goals. How professionally defensible is dispatching English native speakers worldwide when under-qualified linguistically and culturally? English
teaching in national education systems presupposes bilingual, bicultural competence, including translation and metalinguistic knowledge. Myth-making about 'global' English needs constant debunking.<br>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPwUVhE0XKE</div>
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