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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820912503321

Autore

Rubdy Rani

Titolo

English in the World [[electronic resource] ] : Global Rules, Global Roles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006

ISBN

1-4411-1849-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaraceniMario

Disciplina

420

Soggetti

English language -- Foreign countries

English language -- Standardization

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers

English language - Foreign speakers - Study and teaching - Foreign countries

English language - Standardization

English language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Conceptualizing EIL; An Interview with Tom McArthur; Global Intelligibility and Local Diversity: Possibility or Paradox?; English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle: What it Isn''t; Defining the ''Successful Bilingual Speaker'' of English; Which Model of English: Native-speaker, Nativized or Lingua Franca?; World Englishes or English as a Lingua Franca? A View from the Perspective of Non-Anglo Englishes; Standard English in the World; Part II: Pedagogical Implications of EIL; EIL Curriculum Development

A Multi-dimensional Approach to Teaching English for the WorldTeaching EIL - Teaching International or Intercultural English? What Teachers Should Know; Standard Englishes, Pedagogical Paradigms and their Conditions of (Im)possibility; English in the World does not mean English Everywhere: The Case for Multilingualism in the ELT/ESL Profession; An Interview with Suresh Canagarajah; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; R; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

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