Teaching and Learning English Worldwide Author:James Britton, Robert E. Shafer This is a collection of historical studies of the teaching of English in thirteen different countries where English is a mother tongue language or a significant second or third language. The chapters concentrate on the place of English in a particular society and have attempted to describe how the teaching of English exists in the social and pol... more »itical context of that society and how it is shaped as a school subject and language of instruction in that context. The contributors are all familiar with English teaching in their respective countries. Therefore they write with a strongly held point-of-view about the significance of English as a school subject and its place in the social milieu.« less