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  • Home
  • About
  • Classroom Resources
    • Attitudes to Englishes
    • World Englishes Samples
    • Global Englishes Talks
    • History of English
    • Language Change
    • English and Education
    • English as a Lingua Franca
    • Language policy
    • The future of English

CLASSROOM RESOURCES:
LANGUAGE POLICY

The resources below are a collection of real-life authentic materials related to attitude towards variation in English. They can be adapted in a similar fashion to materials used in the textbook Introducing Global Englishes (Galloway & Rose, 2015), and on the book's companion website.

Don't kill your language: Minority language & family language policy


Discussion Questions:
1. In what ways is speaking English perceived as a sign of being modern in a context you are familiar with?
2. What do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? 
3. What do you think of Suzanne Talhouk’s case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can?

Don't insist on English: Language policy in Education

Discussion Questions: 
1. What do you think of her question of whether the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?)
2. In what ways is English used as a gatekeeper to education? 
3. In what ways is English used to both level inequality and to create inequality in access to education?

Linguistic imperialism talk


Linguistic imperialism - Prof. Robert Phillipson explains


Linguistic Imperialism on Al Jazeera English


America's "No Child Left Behind Act"

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