1. Lingua Inglese III (6-12 Cfu) Global Englishes A. A. 2015/16 Prof
Lingua Inglese III (6-12 Cfu) Global Englishes A.A. 2015/16 Prof. Enrico Grazzi Powerpoint n. 1 – 19/04/16

2. Brainstorming… How would you define these different kinds of English?
English as a native language (ENL)
English as a 2nd language (ESL)
English as a foreign language (EFL)
English as a lingua franca (ELF)

3. Is control of English shifting away from British and American native speakers? Watch this video and listen to what a famous linguist says. Then, fill in the video chart in slide n

4. Video chart:
Watch this video again and note down the following information:
The linguist’s name
Figures about today’s speakers of English
Main cause of language change
The meaning of “accommodation”
Instances of new expressions in global English
The role of Internet interaction on global English
The relationship between majority and minority usage of English

5. Strevens’s world map of English (1992)

6. McArthur’s Circle of World English (1998)

7. Kachru’s model of World English (1992)

8. Modiano’s centripetal circles of International English (1999)

9. Modiano’s English as an International language (1999)

10. Pennycook’s 3D transtextual model of English use (2009)
Language resources: The interlingual plane of communicative repertoires
Language contexts: The colinguistic use of English in space and time
Speaker location: The ideolinguistic uptake of meaning

11. Mahboob’s language variation framework of English (2014)

12. Homework:
Reading A2, p. 10
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