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CGE seminar tomorrow: “Rethinking competence: goals for lingua franca pedagogy and teacher education”

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 4th February 2015, from 5:00-6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled, ‘Rethinking competence: goals for lingua franca pedagogy and teacher education’, and will be led by Andrew Blair, University of Sussex. All welcome! Here is a description of the session: competence noun [C or U]: the ability to do something well. Continue reading →

Routledge author of the month Jennifer Jenkins

Director of the Centre for Global Englishes  Professor Jennifer Jenkins is featured as Routledge’s English language and applied linguistics author of the month. As part of the feature Professor Jenkins discusses her recently republished book Global Englishes, and gives her perspective on the field of English as a Lingua Franca. Read more here. Continue reading →

Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “A Squash and a Squeeze: Timetabling ELF in teacher training courses”

The next Centre for Global Englishes seminar will take place on Wednesday 3 December from 5:00pm – 6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The talk is entitled “A Squash and a Squeeze: Timetabling ELF in teacher training courses” and will be delivered by Dr Martin Dewey (King’s College London), a leading researcher into English as a lingua franca-related pedagogy. Continue reading →

Recent publications from the ILC/Centre for Global Englishes

Researchers from the ILC/Centre for Global Englishes have recently published the following: Dr Will Baker Baker, Will, Jenkins, Jennifer, & Baird, Robert. (2014). ELF researchers take issue with ‘English as a lingua franca: an immanent critique’. Applied Linguistics, Advanced Access. Baird, Robert, Baker, Will, & Kitazawa, Mariko. (2014). The Complexity of English as a Lingua Franca. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 3(1), 171-196. Professor Jennifer Jenkins Jenkins, Jennifer. Continue reading →

Professor Anna Mauranen visits Modern Languages

Professor Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English is currently spending the week within Modern Languages here at Southampton as a recipient of one of the University’s Diamond Jubilee Fellowships. Amongst other activities during her visit, she will be presenting the Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “English as Lingua Franca – Broken English?”, taking place today, Wednesday 15 October, in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, from 5:00-6:30pm. Continue reading →

CGE seminar today: Professor Anna Mauranen

English as a lingua franca – Broken English? Please join us for today’s seminar by the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship visitor Professor Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English. Wednesday 15th October 2015, Lecture Theatre C (Avenue Campus) 17:00-18:30 Abstract: Although it has become generally accepted that English is the global lingua franca, debates over the desirability of this state of affairs have not died down. Continue reading →

Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “English as a lingua franca – Broken English?”

The first Centre for Global Englishes seminar of the academic year will take place on Wednesday 15th October 2014 from 5:00pm-6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled “English as a lingua franca – Broken English?” and will be delivered by Professor Anna Mauranen from the University of Helsinki. Continue reading →

New project on Internationalisation of Higher Education

Dr Julia HĂźttner will participate in a three year project (2014-2016) called “Internationalization of Higher Education in bilingual degrees: Analysis of the linguistic, cultural and academic challenges”. The project is led by Prof. Emma Dafouz of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) to 20,000 €. Continue reading →