This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future. It explores the
nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese
context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be
employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language
teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice?). It reveals
the problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language
education by exploring individual teacher-researcher narratives related
to workplace experience and language-based inclusion/exclusion, as well
as Japanese native-speakerism in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign
language. It then seeks solutions to the problems by examining the
concept of post-native-speakerism in relation to multilingual
perspectives and globalisation generally, with a specific focus on
education.