Title:
English in the world : global rules, global roles
Publication Information:
London : Continuum, 2006
Physical Description:
vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780826489067
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Summary
Summary
English today is a truly global language which plays an important role in international communication, trade, diplomacy, sport, science, technology and culture. One of the consequences of the global predominance of English is that non-native speakers of E
Author Notes
Rani Rubdy is at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Mario Saraceni is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies, at the University of Portsmouth.
Table of Contents
| About the Contributors | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 5 |
| Part I Conceptualizing EIL | p. 17 |
| An Interview with Tom McArthur | p. 21 |
| Global Intelligibility and Local Diversity: Possibility or Paradox? | p. 32 |
| English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle: What it Isn't | p. 40 |
| Defining the 'Successful Bilingual Speaker' of English | p. 51 |
| Which Model of English: Native-speaker, Nativized or Lingua Franca? | p. 71 |
| World Englishes or English as a Lingua Franca? A View from the Perspective of Non-Anglo Englishes | p. 84 |
| Standard English in the World | p. 95 |
| Part II Pedagogical Implications of EIL | p. 110 |
| EIL Curriculum Development | p. 114 |
| A Multi-dimensional Approach to Teaching English for the World | p. 130 |
| Teaching EIL - Teaching International or Intercultural English? What Teachers Should Know | p. 151 |
| Standard Englishes, Pedagogical Paradigms and their Conditions of (Im)possibility | p. 169 |
| English in the World does not mean English Everywhere: The Case for Multilingualism in the ELT/ESL Profession | p. 186 |
| An Interview with Suresh Canagarajah | p. 200 |
| Name Index | p. 213 |
| Subject Index | p. 216 |
