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Changing Englishes Course
Course Introduction
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Unit 1: Defining English
Unit 1: Table of contents Sample Section
1.0 What is English? Sample Section
1.1 Monolithic vs plurilithic concepts Sample Section
1.1.1 Monolithic concepts of language Sample Section
1.1.2 Plurilithic concepts of language Sample Section
1.2 ‘Standard English’ Sample Section
1.2.1 ‘Standard English’: History Sample Section
1.2.2 ‘Standard English’: Beliefs Sample Section
1.2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of ‘Standard English’ for ELT Sample Section
1.3 Rules of English Sample Section
1.3.1 The ambiguity of the word rule Sample Section
1.3.2 Rules of English: The monolithic view Sample Section
1.3.3 Rules of English: The plurilithic view Sample Section
1.4 Four dimensions of monolithism Sample Section
1.5 Check Your understanding Sample Section
1.6 Reflect and discuss Sample Section
Unit 2: Using English
Unit 2: Table of contents
2.0 Global talk in English
2.1 Introducing Lingua Franca usage
2.2.1 Native speaker variation
2.2.2 Native speakers: Accommodation
2.3 Englishes in the British Isles
2.4 World Englishes
2.4.1 Englishes in your part of the world
2.4.2 Owning a language (Part 1)
2.5 ELF
2.5.1 Intelligibility
2.5.2 ELF in your part of the world
2.6 Translanguaging with English
2.7 Check your understanding
2.8 Reflect and discuss
Unit 3: Learning English
Unit 3: Table of contents
3.0 English as subject and object
3.1 First language acquisition
3.2 Back to rules
3.2.1 Rules as patterns in the mind (Part 1)
3.2.2 Rules as social markers
3.2.3 Rules as mental representations
3.2.4 Rules in schools
3.2.5 Rules as patterns in the mind (2)
3.3 Models and targets
3.4 Learning contexts
3.5 Owning a language (Part 2)
3.6 Learners and users
3.7 Check your understanding
3.8 Reflect and discuss
Unit 4: Teaching English
Unit 4: Table of contents
4.0 Teaching the object language
4.1 Changing roles for teachers
4.2 Changing versions of English
4.3 Your learning and teaching materials
4.4 Your learning and teaching activities
4.5 Testing English
4.6 Check your understanding
4.7 Reflect and discuss
Unit 5: Changing English
Unit 5: Table of contents
5.0 You hold the future of English in your hands
5.1 The challenge
5.2 Changing learners’ beliefs about English
5.3 Changing teaching colleagues’ beliefs about English
5.4 Changing policy-makers’ beliefs about English
5.5 Changing the public’s beliefs about English
5.6 Check your understanding
5.7 Reflect and Discuss
5.8 Postgraduate Study
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Unit 1: Table of contents

  1. Changing Englishes Course
  2. Unit 1: Table of contents
This unit introduces the idea of alternative monolithic and plurilithic conceptions of English.
  • 1.0 What is English? Introduction
  • 1.1 Monolithic vs Plurilithic Concepts
    • 1.1.1 Monolithic Concepts of Language
    • 1.1.2 Plurilithic Concepts of Language
  • 1.2 ‘Standard English’
    • 1.2.1 ‘Standard English’: History
    • 1.2.2 ‘Standard English’: Beliefs
    • 1.2.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of ‘Standard English’ for ELT
  • 1.3 Rules of English
    • 1.3.1 The ambiguity of the word ‘rule’
    • 1.3.2 Rules of English: The Monolithic View
    • 1.3.3 Rules of English: The Plurilithic View
  • 1.4 Four Dimensions of Monolithism
  • 1.5 Check Your Understanding
  • 1.6 Reflect and Discuss

 

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