Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction
Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction

Author: Sandra McKay

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-03-12

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780194328142

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Looks at the way in which social, political, economic, and cultural factors can influence the language classroom. This book also contains practical suggestions on how to cope with the professional problems and misunderstandings which can occur in overseas contexts. It is useful for native-speaker teachers of English preparing to work overseas.

The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language
The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

Author: Alastair Pennycook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 135184735X

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A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including: international politics colonial history critical pedagogy postcolonial literature. The book provides a critical understanding of the concept of the ‘worldliness of English’, or the idea that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used. Reissued with a substantial preface, this Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a landmark text, which led a much-needed critical and ideologically-informed investigation into the burgeoning topic of World Englishes. Key reading for all those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.

The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Author: W. E. Minchinton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 100087995X

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Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.

The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

Author: William Mulligan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-20

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0230289622

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External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.