Abstract
This brief response addresses concerns raised by Ruanni Tupas in his reading of my book, The English-Vernacular Divide. It provides some background about my study, and attempts to uncover some researching and texting tensions I experienced when writing the book. Straddling as I am different geographic spaces—India and the US—with different discourses regarding English language learning and teaching in each space, the response details how my focus on the local and everyday became a way of showing how some discourses about English (its being a democratizing force, or the language of empowerment) run the risk of turning a blind eye to issues of poverty, access and “other languages, issues that are crucial for TESOL to address.”
Recommended Citation
Ramanathan, Vaidehi
(2008)
"Poverty, Tesols's Narratives and "Other Languages": Hermeneutic Tensions in Texting-Researching Practices,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
11, Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152x.1140
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss11/3
