East and Southeast Asian Nations’ Preference for Native English Speakers: A Genealogical Investigation Through the English Language Teachers’ Job Market

Although English is widely considered to be a global lingua franca, controversies about whether native English speakers should remain as the standard of English persist. These controversies maintain a potentially problematic hegemonic dominance of native English speakers established by inner circle English nations that affects outer circle ones in English language education. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and the raciolinguistic perspective, this research explores how East and Southeast Asia’s English teaching job market views and restructures the conceptualization of white native English speakers through English teaching job hiring websites and advertisements. The findings hope to expose evidence of East and Southeast Asia nations’ preference for native English speakers and marginalization of nonnative English speakers as a consequence of white settler colonialism and self-Orientalism’s constructed and institutionalized racial hierarchy.