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Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language

Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language

Pinner, Richard S.

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Series: Second Language Acquisition, Book 102

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 1783095660
ISBN13: 9781783095667
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Jun 7 2016
Pages: 199
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book examines the concept of authentic English in today's world, where cultures are in constant interaction and the English language works as a binding agent for many cross-cultural exchanges. It offers a comprehensive review of decades of debate around authenticity in language teaching and learning and attempts to synthesise the complexities by presenting them as a continuum. This continuum builds on the work of eminent scholars and combines them within a flexible framework that celebrates the process of interaction whilst acknowledging the complexity and individual subjectivity of authenticity. Authenticity is approached as a complex dynamic construct that can only be understood by examining it from social, individual and contextual dimensions, in relation to actual people. Authenticity is a problem not just for language acquisition but one which affects us as individuals belonging to society.

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