This essay investigates the classroom talk and reflections of a Year 5 lesson on reading writing beyond Standard English. Its title refers to ‘Reflecting Realities’, CLPE survey ethnic diversity in UK children’s books. In changing ‘reflecting’ ‘representing’ I seek move concern with sourcing representative texts work them, stimulating this through bringing non-standard English into metalinguist...

Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards Indian Sri Lankan as compared to their historical input variety British by investigating spoken components Int...