http://www.liaconferences.com/speakers/andy-kirkpatrick-2009-11.html Striving for Excellence Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.liaconferences.com/speakers/andy-kirkpatrick-2009-11.html/comment-page-1#comment-18 LIA International Conference 2010 « LIA Conferences Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:12:18 +0000 http://www.liaconferences.com/?p=2027#comment-18 [...] Andy Kirkpatrick, the author of “World Englishes” and a speaker at the conference will raise the issue of the implications to English Language Teaching (ELT) curriculum and materials development. In his book he mentions the phenomenon of different usage of the English language by Jamaicans, South Africans, Singaporeans, and many more, as he questions whether the English language used is not “English” anymore. An American expert in linguistics who lived nearly twenty years in Hong Kong, Kirkpatrick suggests the possibility of improving the multilingual model and pedagogy based on new global standards that can be applied internationally thereby eliminating the common perception that English is best taught by native speakers. [...] [...] Andy Kirkpatrick, the author of “World Englishes” and a speaker at the conference will raise the issue of the implications to English Language Teaching (ELT) curriculum and materials development. In his book he mentions the phenomenon of different usage of the English language by Jamaicans, South Africans, Singaporeans, and many more, as he questions whether the English language used is not “English” anymore. An American expert in linguistics who lived nearly twenty years in Hong Kong, Kirkpatrick suggests the possibility of improving the multilingual model and pedagogy based on new global standards that can be applied internationally thereby eliminating the common perception that English is best taught by native speakers. [...]

]]> http://www.liaconferences.com/speakers/andy-kirkpatrick-2009-11.html/comment-page-1#comment-12 LIA Int’l Conference 2010 « LIA Conferences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:32:11 +0000 http://www.liaconferences.com/?p=2027#comment-12 [...] Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick, Hongkong Prof. Joseph Foley, Thailand [...] [...] Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick, Hongkong Prof. Joseph Foley, Thailand [...]

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