By J. Edge

An overseas crew of authors talk about the results for TESOL pros of the conception that English is once more changing into an imperial language.

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The parameter of practicality seeks to rupture the reified role relationship between theorizers and practitioners by enabling and encouraging teachers to theorize from their practice and practice what they theorize. The parameter of possibility seeks to tap the sociopolitical consciousness that students bring with them to the classroom so that it can function as a catalyst for a continual quest for identity formation and social transformation. Postmethod pedagogy provides one possible way to be responsive to the lived experiences of learners and teachers, and to the local exigencies of learning and teaching.

While conservative thinkers like Niall Ferguson and Paul Johnson advocate unilateralism and militarism to maintain American hegemony, moderates like Joseph Nye and Zbigniew Brzezinski call for persuasion and leadership to achieve the same goal. For Nye (2004a), soft power is the ability to get what the US wants through persuasion rather than coercion. It is exercised through political alliances, economic assistance and cultural exchanges. If soft power fails, then, hard power may be employed, with the support of likeminded allies.

In contrast to imperialism, Empire establishes no territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or barriers. It is a decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule that progressively incorporates the entire global realm within its open, expanding frontiers. Empire manages hybrid identities, flexible hierarchies, and plural exchanges through modulating networks of command. Globalization, Empire and TESOL 9 The distinct national colors of the imperialist map of the world have merged and blended in the imperial global rainbow.

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