Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students

by Jennifer Jenkins, Sonia Morán Panero

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367462628
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/18/2024
Series:	Routledge English Language Introductions
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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