PHILIPPINE English is one of the earliest varieties to ever be investigated. The late Prof. Braj Kachru s first article on Indian English titled The Indianness of Indian English was published in 1965. The first publication on Philippine English is the 1969 book of the late Prof. Teodoro Llamzon titled Standard Filipino English. Professor Kachru s article is not referenced in Professor Llamzon s book, so it seems that Llamzon had not read Kachru s article when Llamzon wrote his.
IN language use, description and teaching, the native speaker plays a very important role. Yet sometimes, the role he or she plays becomes overstated, even quasi-mythical, if I may say. The native speaker, most especially in English language teaching, assumes a very powerful position that may be misplaced actually, most especially in line with the ongoing paradigm shift in English language teaching, along the lines of the notion of world Englishes espoused by the late professor Braj Kachru and in the context of multilingual diversity in the globalized world.
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A new kind of English is flourishing in Europe, the linguist Marko Modiano says - especially after Brexit. Maurice Frank, 26.1.2021 - 11:28 Uhr
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Photo: imago images/SteinachBritish English has ruled the roost in EU communications for decades - that could be set to change post-Brexit.
Berlin - Earlier this month, France’s EU affairs minister Clément Beaune said that, now that the Brexit negotiations were over, Europeans should stop using “broken English” when communicating with one another. Speaking to journalists in French, he said: “Let’s get used to speaking our languages again!” But English has long been the main working language of the EU – and that isn’t going to change any time soon. The linguist and Professor of English Marko Modiano believes English – specifically, a new type of European English – will only grow stronger in the post-Brexit era, as he outlined in his 2017 paper English in a post‐B