摘要：This book offers a fascinating account of a domain which has received little attention in applied linguistics and English language teaching. Its main focus is the English languageprogram which was part of Australia’s aid effort in East Timor following the violence and societal breakdown which took place when the East Timorese sought to establish independence from Indonesian control in 1999. The book draws on interviews with female English language teachers, poststructuralist critiques of the space/time binary and critical approaches to development to scrutinize ELT in the aid context. In company with othercritiques of the global role of English (for example, Canagarajah, 1999; Pennycook, 1994), the book questions current approaches to English language education in development contexts and asks who is really benefited by development aid.
