ABSTRACT
The following is the text of a plenary address delivered in April, 1993, in Atlanta at the 27th Annual TESOL Convention. The oral character of the presentation has been preserved.
Given the theme of this convention, Designing Our World, and at a time when territorial disputes and matters of ownership and identity are so prominent in the affairs of the world in general, this is perhaps an appropriate occasion to raise the question of how we stake out our own territory as English teachers in delimiting and designing our world. And to ask who does the designing and on what authority.
