Special issue: multilingualism and English teaching

Editorial: Special issue on teaching and training

2090-598X 2014 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Arab Association of Urology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aju.2014.01.003 Surgery is no longer what we knew it to be. Rapid technological and medical developments, and especially a changing infrastructural, political and ethical environment, have changed the face of modern surgery. This puts more and novel demands on the surgeon...

Jennifer Jenkins Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a

In the relatively few years since empirical research into English as a Lingua Franca began being conducted more widely, the field has developed and expanded remarkably, and in myriad ways. In particular, researchers have explored ELF from the perspective of a range of linguistic levels and in an ever-increasing number of sociolinguistic contexts, as well as its synergies with the field of Inter...

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Researching, Teaching, and Supporting Research Publication - Issues for Users of English as an Additional Language

The ‘industry’ of research publication has now grown to mammoth proportions and its participants—authors, reviewers, editors, publishers and more—come from increasingly diverse locations and backgrounds, including of language. However, the language in which the vast majority of this research is published is now English, a situation that incorporates both advantages and disadvantages for partici...

The English language, multilingualism, and the politics of location

Drawing on Pennycook’s frameworks for understanding the global role of English, we discuss the paradoxes of English language usage in what Canagarajah terms ‘periphery communities’ internationally. This analysis is complemented by Canagarajah’s work on a ‘politics of location’, which provides powerful insights into a periphery community’s local and global investments in English. This notion is ...