Global Englishes A Resource Book for Students

List of figures and tables

Preface to the 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 Africa and North America

1D        The discourses of postcolonialism

Unit 2  Who speaks English today?

2A        Who speaks English today?

2B        The English Today debate

2C        Teaching and testing global Englishes

2D        Who owns English today?

Unit 3  English as an international lingua franca

3A        English as an international lingua franca

3B        The nature of ELF communication

3C        The evolution of thinking about ELF

3D        Looking ahead

Unit 4   English and ELF in global education

4A        English and ELF in global education

4B        Towards the ELF-informed ELT classroom

4C        Problematising English in EMI higher education

4D        The end of ‘international’ standardized English language testing?

Unit 5   Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5A        Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5B        Diversity across the Anglophone space

5C        Standards across channels

5D        Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle?

Unit 6   Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6A        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

Unit 7    English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

7A          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

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

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