Charles Allen Brown, 白任遠

Charles Allen Brown, PhD, 白任遠

English Language Education ESL

Purdue University ESL Language and Cultural Exchange (PLaCE)

bairenyuan@yahoo.com

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0952-7442

Charles Brown @ academia.edu

Charles Brown @ Researchgate

Recognizing English Language Teaching (ELT) as politically-situated, my research focus is on the positions of various social groups in ELT and how individuals navigate this terrain. I am especially interested in how social groups and the knowledge they bear are represented via the hidden curriculum in ELT materials.

Selected Publications

Brown, C. (2025). “Courting” the hidden curriculum: Depictions of sexuality and implications for heteronormativity in ELT materials from Taiwan. Journal of Homosexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2475042

Brown, C. (2024). Shortcomings in the JET Programme as a vehicle for English pronunciation teaching by native speakers. Anglophile Journal, 4(2), 77-90. https://doi.org/10.51278/anglophile.v4i2.1191

Brown, C. (2024). Attention to problematic social group representation in guidance for using mass media in English education. LLT Journal, 27(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.24071/llt.v27i1.7927

Brown, C. (2024). Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: The case of Japan. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2309583

Brown, C. (2023). Why understanding and responding to search engine bias matters to language educators. TESOL Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.779

Brown, C. (2023). Imagined communities of English use in JET Programme teaching materials. IAFOR Journal of Education, 11(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.22492/ije.11.1

Brown, C. (2023). How well do materials evaluation schemes empower users to detect problematic social group portrayals within ELT materials?: A corpus analysis. IARTEM E-Journal, 15(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.21344/iartem.v15i1.973

Brown, C. (2023). The hidden curriculum and internationalization in EFL: A call for heightened criticality. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 2(1), 32-36. https://doi.org/10.32674/cisr.v2i1.5386

Brown, C. (2022). Images from Japanese English teaching materials as an ageist hidden curriculum. Asia Pacific Journal on Curriculum Studies, 5(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.53420/apjcs.2022.1

Brown, C. (2022). Impediments to fostering interculturalism at home: The nation-state, social power, and cultural representation in EFL teaching materials. In C. Glass & A. Bista (Eds.), Reimagining Mobility in Higher Education for New Generations of International Students (pp. 129-142). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93865-9

Brown, C. (2021). The role of foreign language requirements in domestic students' first-year success at one internationalizing Japanese university. Language, Culture and Curriculum. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2021.2001479

Brown, C. (2021). Symbolic annihilation of social groups as hidden curriculum in Japanese ELT materials. TESOL Quarterly, 56(2), 603-628. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3073

Brown, C. (2020). The impact of inclusiveness and rurality in developmental student writing needs and curricular responses: A Pasifika community college case study. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 10(4), 775-792. www.japss.org/upload/6.%20Brown.pdf

Brown, C. (2019). Foreign faculty tokenism, English, and “internationalization” in a Japanese university. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 39(3), 404-416. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02188791.2019.1598850?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=cape20

Brown, C. (2018). Membership in an imagined home community and stance toward English among university students in Japan. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 17(6), 388-401. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348458.2018.1498339

Brown, C. (2018). Hit over the head with hegemony: Relations of power in Japanese and Taiwanese English school ads. Journal of Visual Literacy, 37(1), 1-17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1051144X.2018.1463725

Brown, C. (2017). Understanding the out-of-class English learning choices of students in Taiwan. Asian TEFL, 2(1), 1-15. https://asian-tefl.com/index.php/asiantefl/article/view/25

Brown, C. (2017). Understanding the NS/NNS division of labor in the creation and assessment of a Japanese university English entrance exam. Applied Linguistics Review 8(4), 401-418. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/alr/8/4/article-p401.xml

Brown, C. (2016). The academic competition “winner's” blindness to resource inequity in Taiwan English education. Media and Communication Studies, 69, 1-31. https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/61058

Brown, C. (2016). "They just have the 'foreigner face'": Ideologies of ethnicity, nationality, native-speakerism, and English in Taiwan. In J. Álvarez, C. Amanti, S. Keyl, & E. Mackinney (Eds.), Critical views on teaching and learning English around the globe (pp. 105-121). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. ISBN: 9781681233420 (paperback), 9781681233437 (hardcover), 9781681233444 (eBook) Link

Brown, C. (2015). Combining liberatory and communicative goals in a content-based EFL class. NCYU Inquiry of applied linguistics: The 2015 Issue (pp. 39-50). Chiayi, Taiwan: Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University. ISBN: 978-986-147-731-2

Brown, C. (2006). English for technical communication. Chia-yi, Taiwan: Hong dou chu ban she. ISBN: 9868218039 9789868218031; OCLC: 184969831