Analysing English in a global context : A reader

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, Analysing English in a Global Context is specifically designed for the postgraduate student market, as well as for teachers of English as a second or foreign language throughout the world. 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. Students' skills in analysing these forms will be developed through an examination of the major functional models and their strengths and weaknesses.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. ix)
• List of acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part 1 English in the world: change and variety
• 1 World Englishes (p. 9)
• 2 English in the Future (p. 26)
• 3 New Technology: New Language at Work? (p. 38)
• Part 2 The globalisation of English: opportunities and constraints
• 4 The Future of Englishes (p. 53)
• 5 The Power and Politics of Genre (p. 65)
• 6 English in the World/the World in English (p. 78)
• Part 3 Analysing English: a text perspective
• 7 Theoretical Approaches to Written Language - A Tesol Perspective (p. 93)
• 8 Analysing Spoken Discourse: Implications for Tesol (p. 123)
• 9 Language, Register and Genre (p. 149)
• 10 Understanding Genre and Register: Implications for Language Teaching (p. 167)
• 11 Literacy and Linguistics: Relationships Between Spoken and Written Language (p. 181)
• 12 How to Analyse Visual Images: A Guide for Tesol Teachers (p. 194)
• Part 4 Analysing English: a clause perspective
• 13 Technicality and Abstraction: Language for the Creation of Specialized Texts (p. 211)
• 14 Text Analysis and Diagnostic Assessment (p. 229)
• 15 Pedagogical Grammars: Their Role in English Language Teaching (p. 240)
• Index (p. 270)