Should we teach Globish

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Should we teach Globish?

• Bologna 2006 English Language Teaching
• British Council 25th Annual Conference Italy
• Dr Barbara Bettinelli

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Speakers of English  

• Definitions of Global English

Implications for teaching ? Language ?
Pronunciation ? Writing ? Culture ?
Micro-languages Business English
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SO MANY ENGLISHES, SO MANY SPEAKERS!

• In the next ten years
• 2 billion people will start learning
  English
• 3 billion people will speak English
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• Graddol, D., English Next, 2006

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• Languages are shaped by their use The ownership
  of any language rests with the people who use it,
  however they are, however multilingual they are,
  however monolingual they are.
• Brumfit, C. J. Individual Freedom in Language
  Teaching, 2001

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WHAT IS GLOBAL ENGLISH?
The core English vocabulary, that part of the
language common to all English speakers
A collective form for all the different varieties
of English worldwide
The use of English as a global language
The English in use around the world in the latter
half of the twentieth century
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GLOBISH

• A simplified language consisting of only 1,500
  words which could be learnt in only 182 hours
• Jean-Paul Nerrière Parlez Parlez Globish?, 2004

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SO MANY ENGLISHES!

• EIL
• ELF
• ELFE
• ISSE
• EWoL
• WSSE
• ISWE
• NEFL

• English as an international Language
• English as a Lingua Franca
• English as a Lingua Franca for Europe
• International Spoken Standard English
• English as a World Language
• World Standard Spoken English
• International Standard World English
• Net English as a Foreign Language

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THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH

• Glocalization
• Globalisation 
• Grobalization
• Communcation
• Language
• Identification

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WHICH MODEL OF ENGLISH?
The predominant model is still native English
Need to identify the context in which learners
want to use English
Need to identify the discourse community within
which students intend to move
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NO MAJOR DISRUPTIONS IN COMMUNICATION

• no -s in the third person present tense
• no article in front of nouns
• interchangeable use of "who" and "which
• verb stem rather than ing form, as in Its
• worth to do

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"isn't it?" as a universal tag question
infinitive constructions as in I want that..
inserting redundant prepositions no pre-
and post prepositions as in Ill pay the
coffee no passive forms
NO MAJOR DISRUPTIONS IN COMMUNICATION
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• Exam body declares war on greengrocer's
  apostrophe Press AssociationFriday March 3,
  2006
• Good GCSE English grade may depend on punctuation
  Matthew Taylor, Education CorrespondentSaturday
  March 4, 2006
• Lets kill apostrophe's
• Tuesday March 7, 2006

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ACCEPTABLE USES
theres for singulars and plurals
were as standard past form for to be
Some people delay to pay their tax This is
belonging to me He is teacher Trudgill, P.
Varieties of Standard English
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CORE FEATURES

• consonant sounds except for "th" and dark 'l
• vowel quality
• consonant clusters at the beginning and in
• the middle of words
• nuclear stress

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NON - CORE FEATURES

• exact vowel quality
• the th sound
• word stress
• the "typical rhythm of British English"
• weak forms, such as articles and prepositions

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FROM PLAIN ENGLISH TO GLOBAL ENGLISH

• long sentences and long paragraphs
• false subjects
• miniwords such as get, go, lot, by, etc.
• colloquial expressions, idioms, phrasal verbs
• negative words
• abstract nouns
• ambiguous pronouns and words
• which

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ASPECTS OF WRITING AFFECTED BY E-MAIL SMS

• punctuation
• capitalisation
• dropping of personal pronouns
• use of conversational features

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ABBREVIATIONS IN E-MAIL SMS

• Y
• THX
• 2
• CU L8R
• AFK
• BCNU
• GR8
• DS
• FN
• EZ

• why
• thanks
• to, too, two
• see you later
• away from keyboard
• be seeing you
• great
• this
• fun
• easy

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CULTURE
Culture as content food, clothes, climate, etc.

• High culture art and national institutions

Cultural practice or behaviour ? ritual
behaviour ? politeness systems ? turn-taking in
conversations and meetings ? discourse
conventions
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FEATURES OF IBE

• Simplified vocabulary
• No uncountables
• Reduced prepositions
• Simplified questions
• Simplified tense system
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• waiting for not expecting
• I have a news.
• Ill pay the coffee.
• You understand me?
• Tomorrow I go to London.

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COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
Active listening Showing understanding,
misunderstanding, supporting exchange of
information
Repair strategies Dealing with breakdowns of
communication, signalling non-comprehension in
a face- saving way
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COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
Signalling Being able to signal speech
intentions Can I interrupt?
Logical organisation Showing the logic of an
argument
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