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Inherent to native-speakerist ideology is what Holliday terms ‘cultural disbelief’ (Holliday 2013: 17; Holliday this volume), that is, the view that ‘non-western’ cultural realities are deficient. This chapter applies Holliday’s (2011, 2013) thinking around cultural disbelief in the abilities of the Other to discourses surrounding the ability to perform in an academic culture. In doing so, the chapter explores alternative ways of conceptualising people from cultural backgrounds which may be different to those who traditionally take up places at British universities:
While cultural disbelief finds the cultural background of ‘non-native speaker’ teachers, and indeed students [italics added], deficient and problematic, cultural belief perceives the cultural background of any teacher or student to be a resource.
(Holliday 2013: 21)
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Odeniyi, V. (2015). The Politics of Remediation: Cultural Disbelief and Non-traditional Students. In: Swan, A., Aboshiha, P., Holliday, A. (eds) (En)Countering Native-speakerism. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463500_11
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