The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

by Alastair Pennycook

Overview

Covering a wide range of areas including international politics, colonial history, critical pedagogy, postcolonial literature and applied linguitics, this book examines ways to understand the cultural and political implications of the global spread of English.

Firstly, it explores how a particular view of English as an international language has come into being by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. It then offers an alternative, critical understanding through the concept of the 'worldliness' of English. This concept suggests that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351847353
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Series:	Routledge Linguistics Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	390
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language in Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of many titles, including BAAL book prize winner 2008: Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows (Routledge, 2007), Language as a Local Practice (Routledge, 2010), and Metrolingualism: Language in the City (co-authored with Emi Otsuji, Routledge, 2015).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Author’s Acknowledgements Acknowledgments Publisher’s Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The world in English; Chapter 2 Discourse and dependency in a shifting world; Chapter 3 English and colonialism; Chapter 4 Spreading the word/disciplining the language; Chapter 5 ELT from development aid to global commodity; Chapter 6 The worldliness of English in Malaysia; Chapter 7 The worldliness of English in Singapore; Chapter 8 Writing back; Chapter 9 Towards a critical pedagogy for teaching English as a worldly language;