The global spread of English and Linguistic imperialism

What Causes the global spread of English. Was it deliberately spread? How? Who benefits?

What are the cultural and educational effects of English use in particular contexts?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this spread?

What is lost when a language dies? Is English responsible for language death?

What are language rights? How might we as English language educators respect other people?s language rights

The global spread of English: Defining the issues
1-Tollefson, J 2000, ‘Policy and ideology in the spread of English’, in JK Hall & W Eggington (eds), The Sociopolitics of English Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, Great Britain, pp. 7-21.
English linguistic imperialism and language rights
Key reading
1-Phillipson, R (2008) The linguistic imperialism of neoliberal empire. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 5(1) 1-43
Further reading
2-Phillipson, R (1994), ‘English language spread policy’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 107, pp. 7-24.
3-Phillipson, R & Skutnabb-Kangas, R (1996), ?English only world-wide or language ecology??, TESOL Quarterly, vol. 30, issue 3, pp. 429-452.
4-Phillipson (2006) Language policy and linguistic imperialism. In T Ricento (Ed) An introduction to language policy: Theory and method. Oxford: Blackwell, 346-361

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