John Benjamins Publishing Company
Varieties of English in the EFL classroom setting
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Julia Davydova
Abstract
An unprecedented case in the history of languages, English has expanded all over the world yielding a variety of unique – und sometimes mutually unintelligible – forms. The immediate repercussion of this observation is that when confronted with regionally marked vernaculars in the EFL setting, learners with no previous variety-specific knowledge are very likely to experience considerable difficulties. The question therefore arises as to how one can teach this topic to audiences possessing no training in linguistics in a classroom context. This contribution elaborates on the general approach and methods that lay the foundation for a textbook specifically designed to address the topic of English language diversity in the EFL setting with the aim of increasing learners’ general awareness of the heterogeneity inherent in English.
Abstract
An unprecedented case in the history of languages, English has expanded all over the world yielding a variety of unique – und sometimes mutually unintelligible – forms. The immediate repercussion of this observation is that when confronted with regionally marked vernaculars in the EFL setting, learners with no previous variety-specific knowledge are very likely to experience considerable difficulties. The question therefore arises as to how one can teach this topic to audiences possessing no training in linguistics in a classroom context. This contribution elaborates on the general approach and methods that lay the foundation for a textbook specifically designed to address the topic of English language diversity in the EFL setting with the aim of increasing learners’ general awareness of the heterogeneity inherent in English.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Applied linguistics as problem solving and multilingualism 5
- Sociolinguistics in New Zealand society 21
- The future of multilingualism 43
- Varieties of English in the EFL classroom setting 81
- Promoting the weak language of German-Spanish bilingual children living in Germany 95
- Knowledge transfer on English as a lingua franca in written multilingual business communication 117
- Transfer is not a one-way street 137
- Index 151
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Applied linguistics as problem solving and multilingualism 5
- Sociolinguistics in New Zealand society 21
- The future of multilingualism 43
- Varieties of English in the EFL classroom setting 81
- Promoting the weak language of German-Spanish bilingual children living in Germany 95
- Knowledge transfer on English as a lingua franca in written multilingual business communication 117
- Transfer is not a one-way street 137
- Index 151
