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Routledge English Language Introductions
Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible two-dimensional structure is built around four sections introduction, development, exploration, and extension which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.
"Global Englishes, Third Edition," previously published as "World Englishes," has been comprehensively revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.
Key features of this best-selling textbook include:
coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day exploration of the current debates in global Englishes, relating to its uses as mother tongue in the US, UK, Antipodes, and post-colonial language in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and lingua franca across the rest of the globe, with a new and particularly strong emphasis on China a range of texts, data and examples draw from emails, tweets and newspapers such as "The New York Times," "China Daily" and "The Straits Times" readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry G. Widdowson and Lesley Milroy activities that engage the reader by inviting them to draw on their own experience and consider their orientation to the particular topic in hand.
"Global Englishes, Third Edition" provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and the spread of English in the world today."
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible two-dimensional structure is built around four sections introduction, development, exploration, and extension which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.
"Global Englishes, Third Edition," previously published as "World Englishes," has been comprehensively revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.
Key features of this best-selling textbook include:
coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day exploration of the current debates in global Englishes, relating to its uses as mother tongue in the US, UK, Antipodes, and post-colonial language in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and lingua franca across the rest of the globe, with a new and particularly strong emphasis on China a range of texts, data and examples draw from emails, tweets and newspapers such as "The New York Times," "China Daily" and "The Straits Times" readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry G. Widdowson and Lesley Milroy activities that engage the reader by inviting them to draw on their own experience and consider their orientation to the particular topic in hand.
"Global Englishes, Third Edition" provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and the spread of English in the world today."
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296 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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Jennifer Jenkins
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Jennifer Jenkins studied English language and literature, Old Icelandic, and linguistics/applied linguistics at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and London, and in the earlier years of her career, was first an English language teacher then teacher trainer. From 1992 to mid-2007 she worked at King's College London, where she designed and directed the MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics, and since then have been Professor of Global Englishes at Southampton. She was Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics from 2004 through 2009, and is currently a member of several journal Editorial Boards including TESOL Quarterly and Language Teaching, as well as consultant to the English Project. She recently became founding co-editor of both the new Journal of English as a Lingua Franca and the book series Developments in English as a Lingua Franca (both DeGruyter Mouton).
Jennifer Jenkins studied English language and literature, Old Icelandic, and linguistics/applied linguistics at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and London, and in the earlier years of her career, was first an English language teacher then teacher trainer. From 1992 to mid-2007 she worked at King's College London, where she designed and directed the MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics, and since then have been Professor of Global Englishes at Southampton. She was Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics from 2004 through 2009, and is currently a member of several journal Editorial Boards including TESOL Quarterly and Language Teaching, as well as consultant to the English Project. She recently became founding co-editor of both the new Journal of English as a Lingua Franca and the book series Developments in English as a Lingua Franca (both DeGruyter Mouton).
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April 19, 2025
The book presents many concepts, points about linguistics, and social impacts of English variations and standardizations. Several sections include reproductions of influential thinkpieces by scholars.
The organization is unusual: chapters with 4 lettered sections in each numbered chapter (so there's ch. 1 part A, B, C, D). This made reading feel a little disjointed but the author intended it to make reading follow one of two possible reading paths.
The organization is unusual: chapters with 4 lettered sections in each numbered chapter (so there's ch. 1 part A, B, C, D). This made reading feel a little disjointed but the author intended it to make reading follow one of two possible reading paths.
February 2, 2020
It wasn't bad, but it was brutal at the end especially in section D.
April 25, 2025
What can I say, I just love linguistics🫶
February 25, 2015
A great book on World Englishes!
October 24, 2020
This is a text for perhaps upper-division linguistics students. The last section and especially the final chapter by Alistair Pennycook, interested me the most.
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