The world in English: introduction - from Kurt Waldheim to Johnny Clegg, the natural, neutral and beneficial, spread of English, the social, cultural and political, contexts of English, the worldliness of English. Discourse and dependency in a shifting world: introduction - rethinking internationalism, development, aid and modernization, dependency and imperialism, culture, discourse, difference and disjuncture, cricket, English and cultural politics. English and colonialism - origins of a discourse: introduction - the complexities of colonialism - two sides of the colonial, English for the few - colonial education policies in Malaya, Anglicism and English studies. Spreading the word/disciplining the language: introduction - anti-nomadic disciplines, the disciplining of linguistics, the disciplining of applied linguistics, the spreading and disciplining discourse of EIL. ELT from development aid to global commodity: from cultural propaganda to global business - the British Council, "The West is better ..." - discourses of ELT, English language teaching practices as cultural practices. The worldliness of English in Malaysia: contexts, cultural politics after independence, Malay nationalism and English, English, class and ethnicity, English and Islam, English and the media, the debates continue. The worldliness of English in Singapore: English as a useful language, the making of Singapore, Singapore English, pragmatism, multiracialism and meritocratism, pragmatic, multiracial and meritocratic English. Writing back - the appropriation of English: post-colonial English, re-presenting post-colonial worlds, worldly texts in a worldly language, decentred voices - writing in Malaysia, centred voices - writing in Singapore, from aestheticism to yuppyism - the new writing in Singapore, from writing back to teaching back.; Towards a critical pedagogy for teaching English as a worldly language: critical pedagogies, discourse, language and subjectivity, insurgent knowledges, the classroom and the world. (Part contents).
