US English, Canadian English, Australian and New Zealand English, South African English, Indian English, West Indian English. US English is of course particularly influential, on account of America’s dominance of cinema, television, …
By: Rizal Najjara The recent development of English as an international language has left many tasks for the English Language Teaching practitioners. One of those is that what variant should be taught and how the varieties of English across the globe can be incorporated in teaching and learning process in order to accommodate the learners’ [...]
By Alastair Pennycook ISBN: 978-0-415-37497-2 Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback) Published by: Routledge Publication Date: 5th December 2006 Pages: 189 About the Book The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the [...]
JAKARTA POST | Wawan Gunawan , Amherst, Massachusetts | Sat, 09/26/2009 12:06 PM | Opinion When Indonesians start to learn English they will face two canonical forms of English: American English or British English. Although Australian English exists, the trend is more influenced by English on television or other media dominantly of American or [...]
English is spoken as a first language by more than 300 million people throughout the world, and used as a second language by many millions more. One in five of the world’s population speaks English with a good level of competence, and within the next few years the number of people speaking English as a [...]
Full title: World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching Author: Andy Kirkpatrick Publisher: Cambridge University Press Reviewed by: Eric Roth Download Presentation Slides Do the English in England speak the same English as the Americans, the Jamaicans, the South Africans, the Australians, the Irish, and the Indians? Do they even speak the [...]
“World English is actually many varieties of English that have been indigenised in different parts of the world. Singapore English, Indian English and Hong Kong English are different types of English with their own rules, norms and literature.
“Instead of being limited by the old view of authentic English being entombed in a particular canon of literature, we now need to study English and how it works in film, music and other cultural forms, and across cultures,” he said.
– Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies? Plan to spend your staycation watching vlogs and webisodes? Or perhaps you plan to signal a flash mob for a quick bite of shawarma.
If you’re not entirely certain what all that means, turn to the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, which has added about 100 new words that largely reflect changing trends in American society.
John Morse, president and publisher of the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, said many of this year’s new words are tied to changes in technology, increasing environmental awareness and aging baby boomers’ concerns about their health and have become part of the general lexicon.
There is much scientific research on how we learn languages, which now gives us greater understanding of the role of ‘acquiring language’ in relation to learning language.
Infants and young children can be very good at acquiring languages when they are used in the home, and this is one reason why people sometimes think that we learn languages best when we are very young.