TEACHING ENGLISH TO THE WORLD: HISTORY, CURRICULUM AND PRACTICE, George Braine (Ed.)

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TEACHING ENGLISH TO THE WORLD: HISTORY, CURRICULUM AND PRACTICE.George Braine (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005. Pp. xx + 169. $22.50 paper.This volume, edited by Braine, has some links to a volume he edited 6 years earlier (Braine, 1999). The major purpose of the earlier work was to provide personal narratives of a number of nonnative English language teachers from various world settings. This volume relies on nonnative teachers to present information on the history of English language teaching and the most prominent curricula for this teaching in their respective countries, followed by their autobiographies. The issue of nonnative teachers of English has gained increasing prominence in recent years, as witnessed by the growing number of conference colloquia, formation of new interest sections within professional associations, and publications devoted to this topic. This volume contributes to that topic and movement but goes even further by adding information on what English language teaching has meant in key countries around the world.