World Englishes: Implications for international communication and English language teaching with 1 CD

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The model of English that should be used in classrooms has long been a subject of debate. World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching (with an accompanying audio CD), describes varieties of World Englishes and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of selecting a particular variety from the point of view of both teachers and learners. It aims to examine and re-evaluate concepts such as 'standard', 'variety', 'native speaker' and 'non-native speaker', and to validate the role played by multilingual and multicultural English language teachers, arguing that context and learner needs should determine the variety to be taught.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. viii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part A The Framework (p. 5)
• 1 Key sociolinguistic concepts (p. 5)
• 2 Key linguistic terms (p. 16)
• 3 Models of World Englishes (p. 27)
• Part B Variation and Varieties (p. 39)
• 4 Variation and impurity in British English (p. 39)
• 5 The powerful variety: American English (p. 55)
• 6 A younger 'cousin' and indigenous identity (p. 69)
• 7 Englishes of the subcontinent (p. 85)
• 8 Voices from Africa (p. 101)
• 9 Englishes of South-East Asia - colonial descendants? (p. 119)
• 10 Emerging Englishes: Hong Kong and China (p. 137)
• 11 English as a lingua franca (p. 155)
• Part C Implications (p. 171)
• 12 Summary of key themes (p. 171)
• 13 Implications for English language teaching (p. 184)
• Appendix Transcripts of samples of varieties of English (p. 198)
• References (p. 231)
• Author index (p. 249)
• Subject index (p. 252)