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The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
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cover title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: next page > Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (Series) ; 1994 Alatis, James E. Georgetown University Press 0878401296 9780878401291 9780585223308 English Linguistics--Congresses, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses, Language acquisition--Congresses. 1996 P53E38 1994eb 301.21 Linguistics--Congresses, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses, Language acquisition--Congresses. cover next page > < previous=""> page_i next page > Page i Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence James E. Alatis, Editor Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. < previous=""> page_i next page > < previous=""> page_ii next page > Page ii Bibliographic Notice Since this series has been variously and confusingly cited as Georgetown University Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, Reports of the Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Study, etc., beginning with the 1973 volume the title of the series was changed. The new title of the series includes the year of a Round Table and omits both the monograph number and the meeting number, thus: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994, with the regular abbreviation GURT '94. Full bibliographic references should show the form: Kachru, Braj B. 1994. "The Speaking Tree: A medium of plural canons." In James E. Alatis (ed.), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 6-22. Copyright © 1994 by Georgetown University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Number: ISBN 0-87840-129-6 ISSN 0186-7207 < previous=""> page_ii next page > < previous=""> page_iii next page > Page iii To The Memory of Francis P. Dinneen, S.J., Ph.D., 1923-1994 < previous=""> page_iii next page > < previous=""> page_ii intentionally left blank next page > < previous=""> next page > page_v Page v Contents Welcoming Remarks James E. Alatis, Georgetown University 1 In Memory of the Rev. Francis P. Dinneen, S.J. James E. Alatis, Georgetown University 3 The Speaking Tree: A Medium of Plural Canons Braj B. Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 6 The Triumph of the Yell Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University 23 Teaching Culture in the Language Classroom: Toward a New Philosophy Rebecca L. Oxford, University of Alabama 26 Toward an Acquisition-Oriented Syllabus Gen-yuan Zhuang, Hangzhou University 46