4th Edition
Global Englishes A Resource Book for Students
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, and commentaries.
Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.
Key features of this best-selling textbook include:
• coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day;
• exploration of the current debates in global Englishes, relating to its uses as a post-colonial language in Asia and Africa, a mother tongue in the US, UK and Antipodes, and lingua franca across the globe, with a strong emphasis on China;
• new material on Latin America, English as a lingua franca, and English medium instruction
• a range of texts, data and examples drawn from emails, tweets and newspapers;
• readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry Widdowson and Lesley Milroy;
• updated online support material providing additional materials that are closely linked to each unit of the book.
Global Englishes, Fourth Edition provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes more broadly, English as a lingua franca specifically, and the factors involved in the spread of English in the world today.
List of figures and tables
Preface to fourth edition
Acknowledgements
Unit 1 The historical, social and political context
1A Introduction to the historical, social and political context
1B The legacy of colonialism
1C Postcolonial North America and Africa
1D The discourses of postcolonialism (Alastair Pennycook)
Unit 2 Who speaks English today?
2A Introduction to who speaks English today?
2B The English Today debate
2C Teaching and testing global Englishes
2D Who owns English today? (Henry Widdowson)
Unit 3 English as an international lingua franca
3A Introduction to English as an international lingua franca
3B The nature of ELF communication
3C The evolution of thinking about ELF
3D The future of English as a lingua franca (Jennifer Jenkins)
Unit 4 English and ELF in global education
4A Introduction to English and ELF in global education
4B Towards the ELF-informed classroom
4C Problematising English in EMI higher education
4D The end of ‘international’ standardised English language testing? (Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung)
Unit 5 Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world
5A Introduction to standard language ideology in the Anglophone world
5B Diversity across Anglophone space
5C Standards across channels
5D Is language (still) power in the inner circle? (Lesley Milroy)
Unit 6 Variation across postcolonial Englishes
6A Introduction to variation across postcolonial Englishes
6B ‘Legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ offspring of English
6C ‘Sub’-varieties of English: the example of Singlish
6D From language to literature (Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)
Unit 7 English in Asia, Europe and Latin America
7A Introduction to English in Asia, Europe and Latin America
7B En route to new linguistic practices
7C Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong and China
7D Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China (Ying Wang)
Unit 8 The future of global Englishes
8A Introduction to the future of global Englishes
8B Possible future scenarios
8C Language killer or language promoter?
8D Looking ahead (Alastair Pennycook)
Further reading
References
Glossarial index
Biography
Jennifer Jenkins is Emeritus Professor of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, where she was founding Director of the Centre for Global Englishes research.
Sonia Morán Panero is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton and a founding member of the Centre for Global Englishes research.
"This new and revised edition of Global Englishes lives up to the success of previous editions, with the authors outlining a concern to expand the scope of themes in the area as a whole, offering the reader an even richer material and, in many aspects, brilliantly locally situated. Throughout the manuscript, we come across themes and issues anchored in sensitive grounds which stimulate, among many reflections, a critical view in relation to the political, ideological and pedagogical implications of the expansion of English around the world, its condition as a global lingua franca, contemplating, for instance, the production of knowledge in the field in commonly invisible contexts such as Latin America. An excellent and always timely resource for teachers, students and teacher trainers that is renewed and will certainly serve as a reference not only for differentiated ELT practices, but also for the investigative work of researchers in all parts of the planet."
Sávio Siqueira, Bahia Federal University, Brazil
