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Re-Examining the “Native Speaker Question”

This chapter addresses the native speaker question and construct from a representational point of view. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of an ELT website in China's context, the authors discuss what and who is profiled as ‘native speaker' and how this category is represented on the website. Existing studies dealing with the ‘native speaker' abound, but only in recent years have a few efforts been made on the construction of this discourse, and the online representation of ELT in China is worthy of more examination. Consequently, this chapter aims to problematize the term ‘native speaker', deconstruct the process of how a discourse of ‘native speaker' takes on shape through online representation, and reveal how it is a racialized category. In conclusion, they offer pedagogical and policy implications.