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Contextualizing World Englishes T August 25 Introduction to the Course, the Participants, the World TH August 27 Kachru, Braj B. (1996) World Englishes 2000: Resources for research and teaching. World Englishes 2000. 209-252. Edited by Larry E. Smith and

Michael L. Forman. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii/East West Center. T September 1 Bolton, Kingsley (2006). World Englishes Today. Handbook of World

Englishes. Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and Cecil L. Nelson. 240-269. New York: Blackwell.

Approaches to World Englishes I TH September 3 Cheshire, Jenny (ed.) (1991) Introduction. English around the world: sociolinguistics perspectives. 1-17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Widdowson, Henry G. (1997) EIL, ESL, EFL: Global issues and local interests. World Englishes 16 (1), 135-146.

Halliday, Michael, McIntosh, Angus & Strevens, Peter. (1964). English at home and abroad. The linguistic sciences and language teaching. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 272-298.

T September 8 Crystal, David (1997) Chapter 1: Why a global language? English as a global language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-23.

Brutt-Griffler, Janina (2002). The becoming of a world language. In World English: a study of its development, pp.107-125. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Brutt-Griffler, Janina (2002). (The) world (of) English: Englishes in convergence. In World English: a study of its development, pp.174-181. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

TH September 10 Journal 1 Issues: Spread and Stratification T September 15 Kachru, Braj B. (1992). The second diaspora of English. In Tim Machan &

Charles Scott (eds.) English in its social contexts: Essays in historical sociolinguistics. 230-252. New York: Oxford University Press. Strevens, Peter (1982) English as an international language: directions in the 1990s. The other tongue: English across cultures. 27-47. Edited by Braj B. Kachru. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

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Issues: Standards and Standardization TH September 17 Bhatt, R. 2002. Experts, dialects, and discourse. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12, 74-109.

Rubdy, Rani (2001) Creative destruction: Singapore’s Speak Good English movement. World Englishes, 20, 3, 341-356.

Issues: Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, Interpretability T September 22 Smith, Larry (1992). Spread of English and issues of intelligibility. In Braj B.

Kachru (ed.) The other tongue: English across cultures. 75-90. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Kirkpatrick, Andrew, Deterding, David, & Wong, Jennie (2009). The international intelligibility of Hong Kong English. World Englishes, 27 (3/4): 359-377.

Issues: Power & Politics TH September 24 Phillipson, Robert (1997) Realities and myths of linguistic imperialism. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 18, 3, 238–248.

Pennycook, Alistair (2002) The politics of language. Critical applied linguistics (pp. 46-72). Mahwah, NJ: LEA. Friedrich, Patricia (2007). English for peace: toward a framework of Peace Sociolinguistics. World Englishes, 26 (1):72-83. Martin, James R. (2007) Comment. World Englishes, 26 (1):83-86.

Inner Circle T September 29 Mencken, H. L. (1919/1980). The two streams of English. The American Language. 4th edition. H.L. Mencken, pp. 3-28. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Delbridge, Arthur (1999). Standard Australian English. World Englishes 18 (2): 259-270.

Whitcut, Janet (1985) English, my English? The English language today. Edited by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 159-165.

TH October 1 Journal 2 Outer Circle T October 6 Kachru, Braj B. (1983) Chapter 2: Indian English: a sociolinguistic profile. The

Indianization of English: the English language in India. 66-95. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Bokamba, E. G. (1991) West Africa. In J. Cheshire (ed.) English around the world: Sociolinguistic perspectives. 493-508. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Expanding Circle TH October 8 Hasanova, Dilbarhon (2007). Broadening the boundaries of the Expanding

PROPOSAL Circle: English in Uzbekistan. World Englishes 27 (3/4): 276-290.

Michieka, Martha Moraa (2005). English in Kenya: a sociolinguistic profile. World Englishes, 24, 173-186.

T October 13 No class/October Break Language Teaching TH October 15 Hu, Yuanyuan (2008). China’s English language policy for primary schools. World Englishes 27 (3/4): 516-534.

Cook, Vivian (1999). Going beyond the native speaker in language teaching. TESOL Quarterly, 33, 185-209. T October 20 Hamp-Lyons, Liz and Davies, Alan (2008). The Englishes of English Tests. World Englishes 27 (1): 26-40.

Brown, Kimberley (2006). Models, methods and curriculum for ELT preparation. Handbook of World Englishes. Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and Cecil L. Nelson. 680-693. New York: Blackwell.

TH October 22 Berns, Margie (2009). English as lingua franca and English in Europe. World Englishes, 28 (2): 192-199.

Jenkins, Jennifer (2009). English as a lingua franca: interpretations and attitudes. World Englishes, 28 (2): 200-207. Pakir, Anne (2009). English as a lingua franca: analyzing research frameworks in international English, world Englishes, and ELF. World Englishes, 28 (2): 224-235. Seidlhofer, Barbara (2009). Common ground and different realities: world Englishes and English as a lingua franca. World Englishes 28 (2): 236-245.

Approaches to World Englishes II TH October 27 Nelson, Gerald (2006) The core and periphery of world Englishes: a corpus based exploration. World Englishes, 25, 1, 115-130

Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan & Van Rooy, Bertus. 2005. South African English:

Labels, comprehensibility and status. World Englishes, 24 (1): 1-20.

T October 29 Journal 3

Issues: Structure T November 3 Kachru, Braj B. The Indianness of Indian English. Word, 21, 301-400.

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Collins, Peter (2007). Can/could and may/might in British, American, and Australian English. World Englishes 26 (4): 474-491.

TH November 5 Mufwene, Salikoko (1994). New Englishes and criteria for naming them. World Englishes 13 (1): 21-32 Controversy T November 10 Quirk, Randolph B. (1990). Language varieties and standard English.

English Today, 21: 3-10.

Kachru, Braj B. (1991). Liberation linguistics and the Quirk concern. English Today, 25: 3-13.

TH November 12 Buffer Day Future of English / World Englishes T November 17 Graddol, David (2006). English Next. London: The British Council.

Kachru, Yamuna and Smith, Larry (2009). The Karmic Cycle of world Englishes: some futuristic constructs. World Englishes 28 (1): 1-14.

TH November 19 Journal 4 Presentations T November 24 TH November 26 No class / Thanksgiving Break T December 1 TH December 3 T December 8 TH December 10

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