Glenn Toh
Biographic Data
| ID | 106100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Toh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Toh |
| SIGNATURE | TOH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7106-6283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Applied Linguistics and Critical Pedagogy
Critical applied linguistics (CAL) and critical pedagogy (CP) are areas of scholarship in language studies and language education concerned with ways in which ideology and power sustain inequalities in sociocultural, racial, gender, class, and socioeconomic relations. While discourses relating to language studies and language education are never free from underlying ideological influences, academic work done in both areas seek actively to denorma…
The being, becoming, and belonging aspects of plurilingual teacher identities: A duoethnographic examination by two Singaporean English teachers in Japan
As plurilingual academic English teachers in Japan, we reflexively examine our professional identities shaped by our education in cosmopolitan Singapore. We acknowledge that language and social relations are often ideologically charged, with struggles over speakerhood and speakerism reinforcing power asymmetries. Recognizing the life contingencies of language users and educators, we also see the transformative potential of multilingualism and mul…
A tale of two reviews: Examining the content and ideology of two single-blind reviews
As part of my work as an educator, I see the need to surface for discussion what might indeed be considered as acts of oppression on the part of peer reviewers when certain aspects of knowing and meaning are misrecognized, obscured, or suppressed. Drawing on observations concerning coercive and oppressive relational and educational practices found in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as well as scholarly works in Critical Discourse Analysi…
Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages: Understanding Japanese Heritage Transnational Families in Singapore
This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated, and how mixedness can be constructed or contested.
Schooling (for) Japanese children in cosmopolitan Singapore: Building bridges and erecting barriers
The Japanese community in Singapore comprises mainly white-collar workers and their families. This article addresses issues concerning education, overseas living, and identity-related investments made visible by way of examining schooling and parenting practices. Framed within a critique which recognizes schooling and identity investment as being inherently ideological in nature, the discussion centers around a Japanese school in whose broader op…
Challenges in English-medium instruction (EMI) at a Japanese university
This paper concerns English-medium instruction (EMI) and begins with an overview of issues relating to EMI initiatives in higher education as documented in the literature. Following this, the case of a Japanese university's attempt to introduce EMI into the curriculum of a newly setup liberal arts faculty is discussed. Conclusions about challenges that can follow policy initiatives to introduce EMI are drawn from this discussion. Outcomes and imp…
Effecting Change in English Language Teaching: Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan
Effecting Change in English Language Teaching: Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan
Openness, Closedness and Institutional Change
Anatomizing and extrapolating from “Do Not Publish” as oppression, silencing, and denial
The author seeks to uncover the interested and ideological nature of journal peer reviewing in relation to four manuscripts submitted to English language teaching and applied linguistics publications. The four manuscripts in question set out to problematize existing beliefs and inequitable practices in English language teaching by way of frameworks drawn from studies in critical literacy, critical pedagogy, and critical applied linguistics. A cri…
Exposing and dialogizing racism through counter-storytelling and critical pedagogy in a Japanese EAP situation
This article is about exposing and countering racism through critical pedagogy in the context of a Japanese EAP (English for academic purposes) program. Relevant issues are first raised through: (a) a review of academic work concerning Japanese constructions of language, race and culture commonly found in nihonjinron writings, a genre of literature concerned with depictions of Japanese uniqueness or Japaneseness; and (b) an examination of importa…
Dialogizing â the Knownâ
Critical Analysis of Discourse in Educational Settings
Critical analyses of discourses in education are fundamentally affected by the fact that much of education, whether as an academic field or enterprise, is born of ideologies that result in inequitable practices, power differentials among people of different race, culture, gender, class, and socioeconomic differentiation. The need for discourse and discursive practices to be critically analyzed in education settings stems, moreover, from the under…
Having English as a resource for multicultural understanding: Exploring possibilities in Japanese ELT
The need to recognise English language teaching (ELT) as a site for the interplay of cultural politics and competing discourses has been acknowledged in ELT literature. Writing as an English teacher in Japan, and not unfamiliar over the years with the confluencing of discourses whether relating to neoliberalism, globalisation or other forces bearing on the cultural politics of language teaching, the author argues for a deeper recognition of Engli…
Native Gurgles and Conference Giveaways: Reflections after the 2006 Iawe Conference
Working Ahead: Asian Englishes and “English is an Asian Language”
(2004). Working Ahead: Asian Englishes and “English is an Asian Language”. Asian Englishes: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 120-125
Toward A More Critical Orientation to ELT in Southeast Asia
Response 2
Schooling (for) Japanese children in cosmopolitan Singapore: Building bridges and erecting barriers
The Japanese community in Singapore comprises mainly white-collar workers and their families. This article addresses issues concerning education, overseas living, and identity-related investments made visible by way of examining schooling and parenting practices. Framed within a critique which recognizes schooling and identity investment as being inherently ideological in nature, the discussion centers around a Japanese school in whose broader op…
Toward A More Critical Orientation to ELT in Southeast Asia
Challenges in English-medium instruction (EMI) at a Japanese university
This paper concerns English-medium instruction (EMI) and begins with an overview of issues relating to EMI initiatives in higher education as documented in the literature. Following this, the case of a Japanese university's attempt to introduce EMI into the curriculum of a newly setup liberal arts faculty is discussed. Conclusions about challenges that can follow policy initiatives to introduce EMI are drawn from this discussion. Outcomes and imp…
Exposing and dialogizing racism through counter-storytelling and critical pedagogy in a Japanese EAP situation
This article is about exposing and countering racism through critical pedagogy in the context of a Japanese EAP (English for academic purposes) program. Relevant issues are first raised through: (a) a review of academic work concerning Japanese constructions of language, race and culture commonly found in nihonjinron writings, a genre of literature concerned with depictions of Japanese uniqueness or Japaneseness; and (b) an examination of importa…
Toward A More Critical Orientation to ELT in Southeast Asia
Response 2
Working Ahead: Asian Englishes and “English is an Asian Language”
(2004). Working Ahead: Asian Englishes and “English is an Asian Language”. Asian Englishes: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 120-125
Native Gurgles and Conference Giveaways: Reflections after the 2006 Iawe Conference
Critical Analysis of Discourse in Educational Settings
Critical analyses of discourses in education are fundamentally affected by the fact that much of education, whether as an academic field or enterprise, is born of ideologies that result in inequitable practices, power differentials among people of different race, culture, gender, class, and socioeconomic differentiation. The need for discourse and discursive practices to be critically analyzed in education settings stems, moreover, from the under…
Having English as a resource for multicultural understanding: Exploring possibilities in Japanese ELT
The need to recognise English language teaching (ELT) as a site for the interplay of cultural politics and competing discourses has been acknowledged in ELT literature. Writing as an English teacher in Japan, and not unfamiliar over the years with the confluencing of discourses whether relating to neoliberalism, globalisation or other forces bearing on the cultural politics of language teaching, the author argues for a deeper recognition of Engli…
Dialogizing â the Knownâ
Exposing and dialogizing racism through counter-storytelling and critical pedagogy in a Japanese EAP situation
This article is about exposing and countering racism through critical pedagogy in the context of a Japanese EAP (English for academic purposes) program. Relevant issues are first raised through: (a) a review of academic work concerning Japanese constructions of language, race and culture commonly found in nihonjinron writings, a genre of literature concerned with depictions of Japanese uniqueness or Japaneseness; and (b) an examination of importa…
Anatomizing and extrapolating from “Do Not Publish” as oppression, silencing, and denial
The author seeks to uncover the interested and ideological nature of journal peer reviewing in relation to four manuscripts submitted to English language teaching and applied linguistics publications. The four manuscripts in question set out to problematize existing beliefs and inequitable practices in English language teaching by way of frameworks drawn from studies in critical literacy, critical pedagogy, and critical applied linguistics. A cri…
Effecting Change in English Language Teaching: Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan
Effecting Change in English Language Teaching: Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan
Openness, Closedness and Institutional Change
Schooling (for) Japanese children in cosmopolitan Singapore: Building bridges and erecting barriers
The Japanese community in Singapore comprises mainly white-collar workers and their families. This article addresses issues concerning education, overseas living, and identity-related investments made visible by way of examining schooling and parenting practices. Framed within a critique which recognizes schooling and identity investment as being inherently ideological in nature, the discussion centers around a Japanese school in whose broader op…
Challenges in English-medium instruction (EMI) at a Japanese university
This paper concerns English-medium instruction (EMI) and begins with an overview of issues relating to EMI initiatives in higher education as documented in the literature. Following this, the case of a Japanese university's attempt to introduce EMI into the curriculum of a newly setup liberal arts faculty is discussed. Conclusions about challenges that can follow policy initiatives to introduce EMI are drawn from this discussion. Outcomes and imp…
Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages: Understanding Japanese Heritage Transnational Families in Singapore
This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated, and how mixedness can be constructed or contested.
A tale of two reviews: Examining the content and ideology of two single-blind reviews
As part of my work as an educator, I see the need to surface for discussion what might indeed be considered as acts of oppression on the part of peer reviewers when certain aspects of knowing and meaning are misrecognized, obscured, or suppressed. Drawing on observations concerning coercive and oppressive relational and educational practices found in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as well as scholarly works in Critical Discourse Analysi…
Critical Applied Linguistics and Critical Pedagogy
Critical applied linguistics (CAL) and critical pedagogy (CP) are areas of scholarship in language studies and language education concerned with ways in which ideology and power sustain inequalities in sociocultural, racial, gender, class, and socioeconomic relations. While discourses relating to language studies and language education are never free from underlying ideological influences, academic work done in both areas seek actively to denorma…
The being, becoming, and belonging aspects of plurilingual teacher identities: A duoethnographic examination by two Singaporean English teachers in Japan
As plurilingual academic English teachers in Japan, we reflexively examine our professional identities shaped by our education in cosmopolitan Singapore. We acknowledge that language and social relations are often ideologically charged, with struggles over speakerhood and speakerism reinforcing power asymmetries. Recognizing the life contingencies of language users and educators, we also see the transformative potential of multilingualism and mul…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (6 works) · Ideology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)