ALIENS: KACHRU'S EXPANDING CIRCLE OF ENGLISH (original) (raw)

WORLD ENGLISHES IN THE EXPANDING CIRCLE

Russian Journal of Linguistics (DAngelo & Ike article starts on p. 612), 2020

Founded in 1997 by the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) ВАРИАНТЫ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА РАСШИРЯЮЩЕГОСЯ КРУГА Приглашенные редакторы З.Г. Прошина и С.Л. Нельсон Научный журнал Издается с 1997 г. Издание зарегистрировано Федеральной службой по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций (Роскомнадзор) Свидетельство о регистрации ПИ № ФС 77-76503 от 02.08.2019 г. Учредитель: Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов»

Englishes and outer circle learner.pdf

The phenomenal spread and growth of English in recent years and its eventual dominance in the international arena has represented unprecedented challenges and opportunities to the practice of English Language Teaching (ELT) and learning, particularly in the ESL/EFL contexts. This paper examines the implications of the phenomenal spread of English around the world on the learning experience and preferences of English as foreign language (EFL) learners. A total number of (108) undergraduate students in an institution of higher learning in the Sultanate of Oman took part as data source by responding to a questionnaire survey administered to them. The study specifically explores the challenges 'outer circle' learners face in learning varieties of English and the effects of that on their views and learning a particular variety of English. The paper draws conclusion on the significance of understanding the nature of codes learners use and get exposed to.

Kachru's redeeming myth of world Englishes

World Englishes, 2019

Michael Halliday once stated that all theories employ metaphors in order to express their essence, which might be restated as ‘every theory is a myth for what it is theorizing’. In his early work, Braj Kachru set out to creatively and critically ‘de‐mythologize’ the English canon, and in its stead introduced the new metaphor of the ‘Three Circles’, and the innovative, and redeeming, myth of ‘world Englishes’, changing the history of English studies in the process.

English as a lingua franca: A new variety in the new Expanding Circle?

2006

The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models such as Kachru's, the question that arises is whether it can count as a variety. Evidence from a corpus-based study of lingua franca English as it is used between European speakers indicates that it is not a non-native variety in the traditional sense. It is suggested here that ELF could be conceptualised as a register, which can be integrated into the variety-and nation-based model only on a functional level.

A Vision for world Englishes in the Expanding Circle

World Englishes, 2005

This paper presents a variety of initiatives in place in our College of World Englishes, and demonstrates how they differ from traditional approaches, and the reason we believe they will have a positive impact on the education and lives of our students. Nearing the end of our third year, we still have a long way to go in developing our program, but there is a solid foundation, and the philosophy of world Englishes is acting in an organic way to create a steady flow of new ideas and programs. The implementation of these ideas will further test and strengthen the acceptance of world Englishes, and we hope this will offer an example to other institutions in Japan and other Expanding-Circle nations.

Englishes in the Expanding Circle: Focus on Asia

Russian Journal of Linguistics

In Kachrus original classification, the countries of the Expanding Circle were those where English was learned primarily as a foreign language in schools. English did not play an institutional role within the country. As such they were norm-dependent countries relying on exonormative native speaker standards as models and targets for learners of English. In recent years, however, the role(s) of English in many Expanding Circle countries of Asia - these include the economic powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea - have increased exponentially both within the countries (as English becomes increasingly important as a language of education, for example) and between the countries as a lingua franca (English has been enshrined as the sole working language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), for example). The aim of this article is to describe how these roles of English in the Expanding Circle countries of Asia have developed. I shall focus on the role of English as...

Assessing English proficiency in the Expanding Circle

World Englishes, 2002

The prevailing wisdom in English proficiency assessment has long been that the appropriate norms for Standard English usage around the world are those that are accepted and followed by educated native speakers of English. This assumption has led to the presumed international validity of English proficiency tests based solely on native-speaker, often American, norms. Brutt-Griffler, 2002) has demonstrated that this assumption is no longer valid in Kachru's (1985) Outer Circle countries, where English as a postcolonial legacy is widely used by large numbers of non-native speakers as a second, often official, language in a broad range of intranational domains. In these settings, widespread nativized innovations in the forms and functions of English have developed, many of which have become local norms for English proficiency testing.