English in the World

Dr Rani Rubdy is at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Mario Saraceni is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies, at the University of Portsmouth.

"Must Read!!!" -Today's Books, July 1, 2006

• Introduction - Rani Rubdy and Mario Saraceni; Part I: Conceptualising EIL; 1. An interview with Tom McArthur; Rani Rubdy and Mario Saraceni; 2. Global intelligibility and local diversity: possibility or paradox?; Jennifer Jenkins, King's College London; 3. English as a lingua franca in the expanding circle: what it isn't Barbara Seidlhofer, Vienna University; 4. Defining the 'successful bilingual speaker' of English Luke Prodromou, freelance teacher; 5. Which model of English: Native-speaker, nativised or lingua franca?; Andy Kirkpatrick, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.; 6. World Englishes or English as a lingua franca? A view from the perspective of non-Anglo Englishes; Peter Tan, Vincent Ooi and Andy Chiang, National University of Singapore. 7. Standard English in the World; Anthea Fraser Gupta, University of Leeds.; Part II: Pedagogical Implications of EIL; 8. EIL curriculum development; Sandra McKay, San Francisco State University; 9. A multi-dimensional approach to teaching English for the world Brian Tomlinson, Leeds Metropolitan University; 10. Teaching EIL - teaching international or intercultural English? What teachers should know; Nicos Sifakis, Hellenic Open University, Greece.; 11. English as an international language, world Englishes and their conditions of (im)possibility; Ruanni Tupas, National University of Singapore; 12. English in the world does not mean English everywhere: the case for multilingualism in the ELT/ESL profession; Michael Joseph and Esther Ramani, University of the North, South Africa; 13. An interview with Suresh Canagarajah; Rani Rubdy and Mario Saraceni.