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Direct linkPrendergast, Catherine – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This article reports on data drawn from a larger critical ethnographic study of English language use and instruction in Slovakia at the moment of capitalist integration. Slovaks who sought to learn English at the turn of the millennium were driven by the brand new anxiety of job insecurity. English lessons at this time sold themselves as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Social Systems, Ethnography
