World Englishes, Global Classrooms: The Future of English Literary and Linguistic Studies

ISBN-13: 9789811940323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 326 str.

Kirsten Hemmy; Chandrika Balasubramanian

Opis

This book provides a critical overview of contemporary world issues in Language and Literary Studies. It offers specific ideas as to how to move away from the traditional literary canon, on the one hand, and traditional native-speaker norms in English language teaching, on the other. It delivers a global perspective of both the growth and the challenges in ELT studies around the world. Following the introduction, the first section of the book contains chapters from international scholars on recognizing and diversifying Englishes in today’s language and translation classrooms. Specifically, the chapters focus on issues such as the cultural hegemony of a monolithic English, English and university pedagogy, English as a gatekeeper, and the role of a reconceived English education in promoting cross-cultural understanding. The second section focuses on the interaction of literature and culture, with specific chapters focusing on decolonizing the traditional literary canon, defining a global text, representing cultural interactions in literary texts, and emerging genres in contemporary English literature. Both sections of the book question the existing boundaries in a post-2020 world, specifically in a non-western world. It is an indispensable resource for scholars in cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Spis treści

World Englishes in the EFL Classroom: The Reality

A global conversation on native-speakerism: Toward promoting diversity in English language teaching

World Englishes, EMI, and state-of-the-art international English

Decolonizing the Composition Classroom through Inclusion of Localized Global English Varieties

Lexical bundles of stance in upper-level Argumentative Literary Essays and Expert-level Literary Criticism Articles: a comparative dispersion study

Translation Beyond the Margins

Student Translators between Pedagogical Grammars and Language at Work: The Case of Aspect in English and Standard Arabic

Incorporating Intercultural Competence into EFL Classrooms: The case of Japanese Higher Education Institutions

Creative Cultural History as a Medium for Social and Emotional Learning: Teaching Students to Present the Stories of their Community across Cultural Boundaries

Universalist Pedagogy and the Future of Literary Studies

O autorze

Kirsten Hemmy’s book of poetry, The Atrocity of Water, was a Tom Lombardo selection for Press 53 (2010). Hemmy is currently completing a book on Muslim women in history (2022). Her poetry has recently appeared in Sonora Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Southern Humanities Review, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere. Hemmy, a recipient of the Linda Flowers Literary Award for Poetry, is a two-time Fulbright scholar (2003 and 2012) who currently lives in the Sultanate of Oman, where she teaches world literature and creative writing at Sultan Qaboos University.  

Chandrika Balasubramanian’s book Register Variation in Indian English (2009) was one of the first large-scale empirical, corpus-based investigations of variation within an international English. While she predominantly has published on World Englishes, and specifically on Indian English, she has also published on various areas of language pedagogy, and her recent work focuses on the pedagogical implications of World Englishes scholarship. Balasubramanian currently lives and works at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, where she teaches sociolinguistics and language.