English as an international language

{New book} Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research

18/11/2020 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research Heath Rose, Jim McKinley and Nicola Galloway DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444820000518 (November) 2020, Cambridge: CUP. Abstract The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century. In recent years a […]

Last Few Places Available: Global Englishes PhD conference, Southampton 24th June 2016

17/03/2016 Siti Fitriyah Leave a comment

Hi All, Below I copy the message from this conference organiser. Any of interest? Last few places are remaining. Please register as soon as possible to secure a place if you would like to attend. On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any […]

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New Book: The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca

12/12/2015 Richard Fay Leave a comment

In this volume edited by Prue Holmes and Fred Dervin, there is a chapter with my long-standing Greek colleagues Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra: “Interculturalities of English as a lingua franca: international communication and multicultural awareness in the Greek context”. This seeks to bring to ELF teaching a combination of an outward/ international-looking EIL/EIC (English as an International Language/ English […]

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‘Asian Englishes’ – Another interesting journal to put on our radar

21/08/2015 Siti Fitriyah Leave a comment

Please find link below: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reng20/current#.Vdb3s_lViko

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An Interesting Journal ‘Englishes in Practice’

15/08/2015 Siti Fitriyah One comment

‘Englishes in Practice’ could be an interesting journal for us working within the area of ELP, EMI, CLIL, Multilingualism, and World Englishes to both look for some references (I have found two useful articles on EMI and ELF for myself) and to find opportunities for publishing our papers (with the rejection rate of 25%, quite a good opportunity) (It does say Open […]

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RM-ly encouragement to branch out towards (appropriate methodology considerations in/for) Global Mental Health

10/05/2015 Richard Fay One comment

As led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (EIL)

31/08/2011 Achilleas Kostoulas Leave a comment

The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics has published a special issue on English as an International language, which is available free of charge from the link below: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/issue/view/175 There are articles by all the ‘usual suspects’ (Phillipson, Pennycook, Kirkpatrick, Seidlhoffer and others).

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