Localizing English literature as a school subject: a Malaysian experience

• Main Author: Lim, Jia Wei
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Subjects: L Education (General); PE English
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21448/; https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2018.1460254
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

This article explores some of the complexities involved in the act of localizing English literature as a school subject. Informed by Goodson and Marsh’s stages of subject development, I explore the ways in which post-16 English literature was localized in Malaysia from an introduced and mythologized...