5-min definitions for teachers in a hurry: KACHRU’S CIRCLES

Описание: 5-min definitions for teachers in a hurry: KACHRU’S CIRCLES
A different “edge” on well-known terms used in ELT

A basic bibliography on Kachru’s Circles:

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Τhe term was introduced here:
Kachru, B. (1985). ‘Standards, codification, and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle’. In R. Quirk & H. Widdowson, (eds.) English in the World: Teaching and Learning the language and the literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


It is also worth checking out the following:

Graddol, D. (2006). English next: Why global English may mean the end of ‘English as a Foreign Language’. British Council.


Kachru, B. (1986). The alchemy of English: the spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Kachru, B. (Εd.), (1992). The other tongue: English across cultures, 2nd edn. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Seidlhofer, B. (2006). ‘English as a lingua franca in the expanding circle: What it isn’t’. In R. Rubdi & Saraceni, M. (Eds.), English in the world: Global rules, global roles. London: Continuum. (pp. 40-50).

Thumboo, E. (Ed.) (2001) The three circles of English: Language specialists talk about the English language. Singapore: UniPress.


The journal World Englishes (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journ...) is devoted to theoretical research on methodological and empirical study of English in global, social, cultural and linguistic contexts with a particular interest in Outer Circle contexts.


The Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (JELF) is the first journal to be devoted to the rapidly-growing phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca. The articles and other features explore this global phenomenon from a wide number of perspectives, including linguistic, sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and political, in a diverse range of settings where English is the common language of choice (from the journal’s description).


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