Syllabus
1. Global Language - why English? Models of spread of English; Defining key terminology. Terminological muddle (WE, WEs, EIL, EGL, ELF, Euro English, etc.); from the 1st to the 4th diaspora
2. Standard English. What English? Whose English? The question of the ownership of English; The English Today Debate.
3. ‘Native’ / NESTs or ‘non-native’ teachers / non-NESTs? Exonormative vs. endonormative model
4. Linguistic, cultural and pedagogical imperialism
5. Culturism, Otherness, Cultural continuity / Position 2, Intercultural competence / the fifth skill; Literary creativity in World Englishes
6. Simplified Englishes; ELF misconceptions; Conceptualizing ELF, Lingua Franca(s)
7. ELF & phonology, LFC; attitudes to accents; correctness; intelligibility; Czenglish
8. ELF & morphology, syntax, lexis, pragmatics; Corpus-based ELF research
9. ELF & ‘ mistakes’; Nativespeakerism, Interlanguage, Learner English, Fossilization
10. ELF & ELT (Paradigm shift; New methods or no methods?; global textbooks; new standard(s); new goals; polymodel approach; innovative teacher training and more)
Annotation
Compulsory:
Jenkins, Jennifer (2009) World Englishes. A resource book for students, New York: Routledge.
Optional:
Holliday, Adrian (2005) The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language, Oxford: OUP.
Jenkins, Jennifer (2000) The Phonology of English as an International Language, Oxford: OUP.
Jenkins, Jennifer (2007) English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity, Oxford: OUP.
Kachru, Braj B., Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson (eds.) (2006) The Handbook of World Englishes, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Kirkpatrick, Andy (2007) World Englishes. Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching, Cambridge: CUP.
Mauranen, Anna and Elina Ranta (eds.) (2009) English as a Lingua Franca. Studies and Findings, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.
Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M. Bhatt (2008) World Englishes. The Study of New Linguistic Varieties, Cambridge: CUP.
McKay, Sandra Lee (2002) Teaching English as an International Language, Oxford: OUP.
Rudby, Rani and Mario Saraceni (eds.) (2006) English in the World, London: Continuum.
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