Alastair Pennycook
Email: Alastair.Pennycook@uts.edu.au
Telephone: +61 2 9514 3067
BA (Modern Languages; Leeds, UK)
M Ed (TESL; McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
PhD (OISE/University of Toronto, Canada)
Professor
Academic area: Language and Literacy
Alastair Pennycook is Professor and Head of Language Studies at UTS. He has been involved in language education as a teacher of English and teacher educator for many years in Germany, Japan, China, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. His best known work is on the global spread of English (The cultural politics of English as an international language, Longman, 1994), colonialism and language policy (English and the discourses of colonialism, Routledge, 1998), and critical applied linguistics (Critical applied linguistics: A critical introduction, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001).
His major recent research focus has been on popular culture (especially hip-hop), identity and language. He has recently completed work on two major projects looking at how language and hip-hop are spread and localized in different contexts around the world. Work from these projects can be found in his 2007 book Global Englishes and transcultural flows (Routledge), which won the British Association of Applied Linguistics book award in 2008, the edited book (with Samy Alim and Awad Ibrahim) Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language, (Routledge 2009), or the Local Noise website: http://localnoise.net.au/
Other recent work has focused on different ways of understanding language, as in the recent edited book (with Sinfree Makoni) Disinventing and reconstituting languages (Multilingual Matters, 2007), metrolingualism: language use in multilingual urban environments (with Emi Otsuji) , early literacy in disadvantaged communities, and understanding language in relation to place and action, which is the focus of a new book to be published in 2010, Language as a Local Practice (Routledge).
Read an article related to Prof. Alastair Pennycook: EMERGING WORLD ENGLISHES
See book review: GLOBAL ENGLISHES AND TRANSCULTURAL FLOWS (by: Alastair Pennycook)
Download:
- Abstract for Plenary Session: English As a Local Language Practice
- Abstract for Concurrent Session: Metrolingualism: Fixity and fluidity in urban language use