This week's session was, I thought, really excellent, with very nice discussions covering linguistic imperialism and linguistic ownership. These are clearly prime topics for further discussion and reflection and would be excellent areas to address in an assignment. It seemed to me that we really did get a good feel for the differences in the 'linguistic imperialism' debate, and the recordings from House and Phillipson were valuable - I'm sure you'll agree. By all means relisten to these when you have the chance, and continue with your readings on and around these topics.
Please ensure you're planning your two-person presentation for Session 5. I'm very much looking forward to seeing your ideas being presented and discussed.
In brief (for Session 5):
a. Prepare a 12-minute presentation on a topic of your choice (on ELF or "World Englishes"). Please abide by the time restriction!
b. 2 students working together
c. One-page handout permissible and encouraged
d. Cover the topic in a way that will enable us to discuss the ideas. perhaps you can prompt discussion by including a few questions in your handout.
Comments welcome!
I am sorry that I missed the class. I was in Spain on a European project with 6 national representatives. Of course the conference was in English! I had meant to tell peope on the CCC course about the British Library's data base of accents and dialects in English. Not EFL but interesting to consider when looking at the question of standard english
ReplyDeletehttps://sounds.bl.uk/BrowseCategory.aspx?category=Accents-and-dialects