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The AI Rush
Every time I open the Google search engine, the ever present AI machine is ready withsuggestions – reading, accumulating, categorizing the information for me. Did I ask forit? No! I’m perfectly capable of reading a couple of websites, do a comprehensionresearch to make my own decisions. However, it is forced down my throat. The image ofa mother bird, putting food deep inside her baby’s beak conjures up. I wonder if AI is thenext Oil? Image: Photo by Jeffry S.S.https://www.pexels.com/photo/mother-bird-feeding-her-offspring-11560416/ Every single person on this planet right now (perhaps, am exaggerating!) from acommon person to powerful institutions want a piece of the AI pie. Not surprisingly,educational institutions have joined this rat…
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Should I Continue to Teach English? ConflictingSubjectivities of a Racialized Teacher
This autoethnography explores the politics of place, the impact of colonization on my linguistic identity as a racialized English language teacher, and the intersection of race and racism in the professional sphere for non-native English teachers (NNES). I analyze my lived experiences through theoretical lenses that inform research on race, teacher identity, teacher education, and English language teaching. I conclude by sharing my reflections/views on how marginalized teachers can resist hegemony in the professional sphere and reappropriate their racial and professional identities. Keywords: colonized; identity; race; resistance; whiteness 1. INTRODUCTION Am I invisible?Or am I overshadowed by whiteness?Whiteness that is perceived very hard to see,Yet permeates my way of being.Do…
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English as a Global Language: Pathway to Equality or Barrier to Inclusion?
A few days ago, I met a senior executive from a multinational company—a highly experienced professional in her 50s. There are only two foreign employees in her office. Yet, in a workplace with a majority of Korean staff, in the heart of Korea, the primary language of official communication is English to accommodate these two individuals. While many international companies today emphasize values like equality, diversity, and inclusion, situations like this raise questions: Does this truly reflect inclusivity or diversity? In another class, I met an Indonesian student who needs to achieve a higher score on the IELTS test just to continue his studies at a university in his own…
