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Lok, Ian Mai Chi – World Englishes, 2012
Prompted by a recurrent question from students, this paper examines perspectives from world Englishes and postcolonial studies in relation to one another. Focusing on two critical thinkers, Braj B. Kachru and Edward W. Said, each section highlights relevant themes and ideas from selected works of each scholar and discusses points of convergence…
Descriptors: Language Role, Foreign Policy, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Hall, Christopher J.; Schmidtke, Daniel; Vickers, Jamie – World Englishes, 2013
In this study we explored variation in the countability of nouns in Outer Circle, Expanding Circle and lingua franca Englishes, a phenomenon which is frequently cited as a marker of Inner Circle norms in TESOL and of endonormative and emerging varieties in the Outer and Expanding Circles. We inspected a set of mass nouns like "information" and…
Descriptors: Evidence, English (Second Language), Nouns, Language Variation
Matsuda, Aya; Friedrich, Patricia – World Englishes, 2011
The use of English as an international language (EIL) and its implications for teaching have attracted much scholarly attention. However, much of the discussion has remained at an abstract level and not provided pedagogical ideas that are theoretically sound, informed by research, and at the same time specific enough to be useful in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Role, Second Language Instruction
Seargeant, Philip – World Englishes, 2010
This paper offers a taxonomy of the names used within world Englishes studies to refer to the object of investigation at the heart of the discipline. With the emergence of English as a global language, and with the concomitant increase in scholarship that critically studies this emergence, there has been a proliferation of names used to refer to…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Classification, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kaur, Jagdish – World Englishes, 2010
Given the rapid growth in international contacts worldwide, English is increasingly becoming the chosen medium to facilitate communication among people of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. However, the question remains as to how non-native speakers of English of varying levels of proficiency, using different varieties of English, are…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Variation, Second Language Learning
Evans, Stephen – World Englishes, 2011
One of the dominant themes of the literature on language in Hong Kong is the belief that English, particularly its spoken form, plays a limited role in the lives of the territory's mainly Cantonese-speaking Chinese community. For this reason, it is argued, there is no societal basis for the development of a nativised variety of English. One of the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Patterns, Speech Communication, Foreign Countries
Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – World Englishes, 2011
In the new European higher education space, Universities in Europe are exhorted to cultivate and develop multilingualism. The European Commission's 2004-2006 action plan for promoting language learning and diversity speaks of the need to build an environment which is favourable to languages. Yet reality indicates that it is English which reigns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Discussion, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
Sewell, Andrew – World Englishes, 2010
This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research. It then examines the findings of the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), a list of phonological features that empirical research has shown to be important for safeguarding mutual intelligibility…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Mutual Intelligibility, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Ferguson, Gibson; Perez-Llantada, Carmen; Plo, Ramon – World Englishes, 2011
This paper focuses on an issue attracting increasing attention: the possible disadvantage inflicted on non-Anglophone academics by the dominance of English in scientific publication and academic exchange. We critically review the evidence for linguistic disadvantage, noting some of its limitations, and critique the native/non-native distinction as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Role, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Alsagoff, Lubna – World Englishes, 2010
Singapore is placed in the Outer Circle of the Kachru's Three Circles Model, and has over the years developed an English which is uniquely Singaporean. This paper argues that in order to understand the ways in which Singapore English is developing its own standards and ways of speaking, a new model needs to be developed that takes culture, capital…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Seidlhofer, Barbara – World Englishes, 2009
This paper argues that the "world Englishes paradigm" and English as a lingua franca (ELF) research, despite important differences, have much in common. Both share the pluricentric assumption that "English" belongs to all those who use it, and both are concerned with the sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and applied linguistic implications of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Applied Linguistics, Language Role, English (Second Language)
Michieka, Martha M. – World Englishes, 2009
This paper evaluates a range of factors that have contributed to the limited spread of English to rural Kisii, Kenya, making the presence of English in this non-urban context fall closer to an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or Expanding Circle continuum than to the expected English as a Second Language (ESL) context. Kenya is an Outer Circle…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors
Kachru, Yamuna; Smith, Larry E. – World Englishes, 2009
It is not easy to look at the current momentum of the worldwide diffusion of English and imagine what the future trends will be by mid-century or even in the next two or three decades. A prudent undertaking is to review briefly the present situation and project what the coming decades hold in view of several developments that are shaping our…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yano, Yasukata – World Englishes, 2009
This paper takes up three topics for discussion. The first is whether the Kachruvian three-circle model can accommodate the possible change of English use (e.g. native/non-native to individual proficiency, a special talent to a basic skill). The second is what transformation English would undergo if it survives as English as an international…
Descriptors: Talent, Basic Skills, English (Second Language), Language Role
Modiano, Marko – World Englishes, 2009
The role which English maintains as a lingua franca is currently being conceptualized in differing ways. English as an international language, Euro-English, and English as a lingua franca are analyzed from two main perspectives; first, the relevance that such descriptions of English-language usage have for variety building (for mainland Europe);…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Global Approach, Ideology, Foreign Countries