Library of Congress Database of English Accents (choose by region, country, speaker)

“When Practice Meets Pedagogy”: Towards Authentic English Instruction and Performative Competence in the Globalized and Digitalized World

Pop Quiz:

1. How many (in %) English users worldwide are non-native speakers?

2. What’s the percentage of English conversations that involve native-speakers only?

3. English is spoken in 118 countries. In how many of these countries English is an official language?

4. How many multinational companies do business in English (%)?

5. How many scientific periodicals are in English?

6. How much of Internet content is in English?

7. What percentage of employers in Russia deem English important for their organization (scale 1-100%)?

8. What percentage of Russian industries require native-like knowledge of English?

KEY TERMS

EFL (English as a Foreign Language): Pedagogically speaking, a historically monolingual and Western-oriented approach to English Teaching; with western language models and cultures seen as the ideal targets learners should aspire to

ELF (English as a Lingua Franca): a Theoretical framework and a pedagogical approach that Regards English as a global tool used to facilitate interaction between people from a variety of national and linguistic backgrounds

TRANSLINGUALISM: a theory of modern language use that regards culture and language as intersecting networks of influence vs fixed entities that can be learned and fully understood. Such view presupposes that a modern user of English draws selectively on a variety of discursive meanings.

POSTHUMANISM (in Applied Linguistics): a perspective on communication that poses understanding as not simply a matter of passing information from one head to another, but rather a matter of alignment (an ongoing process of adaptation) in which spatial arrangements, practices adopted by the interlocutors, objects, and spatial repertoires (as a whole set) take part in the action.

TRANSLINGUAL AND TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES (TCCs):a model of communicative competences in translingual interactions that highlights performative/interactional and fluid vs. fixed aspects of grammatical, cultural/socio-linguistic, performative/pragmatic, and spatial competences with the latter being most unique to translingual communication.

PERFORMATIVE COMPETENCE (S. Canagarajah, 2013) (in translingual interactions): constitutes strategies that enable interlocutors to negotiate beyond conversational turns to include negotiation of broader social and ecological dimension. It is NOT primarily cognitive, but is based on socialization in contact-zone communication.

Practice Activity

Using provided examples of classroom activities sensitive to teaching ELF as a “working tool”, brainstorm an activity that you could design and implement in your particular classroom that could benefit your students as potential ELF speakers. Focus the activity on the development of your student’s communicative competences to handle a particular interaction in English. Such competences comprise of a) grammatical competence, b) sociolinguistic competence/appropriateness, c) pragmatic (communication strategies), d) spatial. Be prepared to share your ideas.

Classroom Resources (with links)

Links to suggested authentic, naturalistic materials that could help promote performative competence to use English as a world language among students in L2 contexts.

Library of Congress Database of English Accents (choose by region, country, speaker)

https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20150401211847/http://accent.gmu.edu/

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