Product Description

This is a groundbreaking Reader which includes specially commissioned pieces as well as classic texts and provides a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and its impact on language teaching contexts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1069646 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 292 pages

Review
'This volume fills a gap that has been missing in the literature used in many TESOL/TEFL courses. The uniqueness of this collection of papers is not just the presentation of English in different cultural and social contexts but also in the foregrounding of language as an analytical tool in order to examine language itself.' - Joseph A. Foley, Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Language Centre, Singapore

'This Reader offers key texts from many of the most interesting authors who consider teaching English to be part of a social and political process, not merely a psycholinguistic one.' - Euan Reid, Institute of Education, University of London

'Experienced English language instructors seeking to deepen their knowledge and abilities will find this series forms a coherent basis to develop their understandings of current trends, sociocultural diversity, and topical interests in teaching English as a second or foreign language around the world. All three volumes provide ample flexibility for discussion, interpretation and adaptation in local settings.' - Alister Cumming, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

'In a principled and accessible manner, these three volumes bring together major writings on essential topics in the study of English language teaching. They provide broad coverage of current thinking and debate on major issues, and an invaluable resource for the contemporary postgraduate student.' - Guy Cook, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Reading

'The strong representation of the seminal Anglo-Australian development of the European functional tradition in the study of language and language education makes this a refreshingly bracing series, which should be widely used in teacher education for English language teaching.' - Euan Reid, Institute of Education, University of London

'This three-part series offers a map to ELT research and practice ... it represents the best that ELT, as an Anglo-Saxon institution, has developed over the last 30 years for the teaching of English around the world ... Readers will find in this series the Who's Who guide to this dynamic and expanding community.' - Clare Kramsch, Berkeley, California

'This series provides a collection of essential readings which will not only provide the TEFL/TESOL student and teacher with access to the most up-to-date thinking and approaches to the subject but will give any person interested in the subject an overview of the phenomenon of the use and usage of English in the modern world. Perhaps more importantly, this series will be crucial to those students who do not have available to them articles that provide both a wide spectrum of information and the necessary analytical tools to investigate the language further.' - Joseph A. Foley, Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Language Centre, Singapore

From the Back Cover
Analysing English in a Global Context offers a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and develops the skills needed to analyse these forms. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic, and cultural contexts.
This Reader addresses key contemporary issues in English language teaching and applied linguistics. The articles - a range of classic and specially commissioned pieces - have been carefully chosen and edited and together they provide an overview of the rapid growth and spread of English in its many varieties worldwide. A general introduction outlines the approach, organization, and different perspectives of the collection.
Up-to-date and fully international, the Reader foregrounds some of the most challenging questions for future developments in English language teaching worldwide. Topics include: the internationalization of English; the status of the non-native English teacher; the recognition of language variation; the debate on standard versus non-standard varieties.
Articles by: Vijay K Bhatia; Anne Burns; Caroline Coffin; David Crystal; Beverly Derewianka; Eleanor Er; David Graddol; M.A.K. Halliday; Rick Iedema; Braj B. Kachru; J.R. Martin; Denise Murray; Cecil L. Nelson; Clare Painter; Alastair Pennycook; Maree Stenglin

About the Author
Anne Burns is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and Associate Director of the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research. Caroline Coffin is a Lecturer at the Centre for Language and Communication at the Open University in the UK.

Vijay K Bhatia; Anne Burns; Caroline Coffin; David Crystal; Beverly Derewianka; Eleanor Er; David Graddol; M.A.K. Halliday; Rick Iedema; Brad B. Kachru; J.R. Martin; Denise Murray; Cecil L. Nelson; Clare Painter; Alastair Pennycook; Maree Stenglin

Customer Reviews

A good guide
I have read this book as a teacher of English as a foreign language. When you teach EFL in the UK your experience is different to when you teach it abroad. Then you become aware of many Englishes. Your own teaching is assimilated in different ways.

There are also teachers who are not native speakers of English, so their teaching reaches their students already filtered by a different mind and vocal apparatus.

Another interesting section of this book is the guidance on variants of English and what is or not standard English. It sets boundaries that are very handy when you are in a teaching situation. You cannot simply impose your brand of Englsih to everyone.