Tag: World Englishes
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ELF and World Englishes: Dispelling some of the confusion
Update: This is a post advertising a talk that took place in 2014. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for archival purposes. If you have found yourself here looking for information on World Englishes or ELF, you may find the following links more helpful: “Are you ELF?” (Reading Notes) English…
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“The successful candidate will be a native speaker of American English”
I recently blogged about an assistant professorship being advertised by the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Readers may have noted that the advert is very specifically targeted at suitably qualified candidates who are “native speaker[s] of American English, or have near-native command of American English”. This is a noteworthy requirement for several reasons: Pragmatically, it is interesting to…