A World of Englishes

The view of an Inner Circle phonetician.

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

ELF at university ..?

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Wednesday 16th May 2012 saw the official launch of Southampton's Centre for Global Englishes , directed by Professor Jennifer Jenkins. I...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Thoughts following my Stockholm presentation

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I'm just back from Stockholm where I'd been invited to speak by Prof Philip Shaw (thank you Philip!). I gave a presentation on spee...
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Friday, 17 February 2012

Intelligibility and familiarity RULE! apparently ...

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Today's class was looking at the legitimacy of varieties of English, among other things. Whenever I do this class, the students looki...
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Friday, 10 February 2012

Native and non-native speaker teachers

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In today's class we talked about some of the issues surrounding native and non-native speaker (NS and NNS) teachers. I told the student...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Research-led teaching / teaching-led research

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I'm teaching my English in the World class this term and part of the assessment is that students take part in one of my research project...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Why does the world need another blog on Englishes?

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Well, I guess it doesn't, really - but I've been asked to write a book chapter on World Englishes and I thought it would be nice to ...
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I'm Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. I'm also vocalist in a classic rock covers band - Swallow - and I'm a sci-fi nut. Opinions my own.
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