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Focus on the Speaker-Learner in English as a Global Language: Agency and Satisfaction

TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 2022-11, Vol.26 (3), p.1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright University of California, Publications Office Nov 2022 ;ISSN: 1072-4303 ;EISSN: 1072-4303 ;DOI: 10.55593/ej.26103a2

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  • Title:
    Focus on the Speaker-Learner in English as a Global Language: Agency and Satisfaction
  • Author: Kohn, Kurt
  • Subjects: Blended learning ; Classroom communication ; Communication ; Empathy ; English as a second language instruction ; English as an international language ; Learning environment ; Pedagogy ; Remedial education ; Students ; World Englishes
  • Is Part Of: TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 2022-11, Vol.26 (3), p.1
  • Description: In pedagogical debates about there ELT students are Global Englishes (GE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF), is widespread agreement concerning an urgent need for liberating teachers and students from the normative constraints of ELT’s orientation towards standard English by raising their awareness of the characteristics and complexities of GE/ELF communication. remedial education based on generally perceived as weak GE/ELF communicators requiring the analysis of recorded GE/ELF exchanges. Contrary to this deficit view, this article calls for acknowledging ELT students as ‘speaker-learners’, who are endowed with a natural capability for communication including strategic creativity, contextual inferencing, empathetic cooperativity, and communication monitoring. Through a as principal agents of ‘MY English’ development, guided by their personal communicative and communal success and their aspiration for speaker satisfaction. A social constructivist lens, they appear requirements of normalizing account of GE/ELF communication and an emancipatory MY English perspective on ELT provide the theoretical-conceptual underpinnings of an immersive pedagogical GE/ELF approach, preferably implemented through virtual exchange in a blended learning environment. Pedagogical mentoring is essential for helping students assume MY English responsibility, make best use of their ordinary communicative capability, and exploit the translanguaging range of their resources when faced with unfamiliar challenges in GE/ELF encounters.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California, Publications Office
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1072-4303
    EISSN: 1072-4303
    DOI: 10.55593/ej.26103a2
  • Source: Open Access: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open Access: Freely Accessible Journals by multiple vendors
    ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
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