World Englishes
implications
Syed Aftab
Ahmed

●English language teaching.
●Language planning and
policy.

English is the medium of great deal of the world's
knowledge, especially in such areas as science and
technology

Introduction to important terms:
● Englishes
● Implications.
● ELT
● World Englishes in ELT

●Implications:
“Consequences, advantages and after effects
of a decision or action are known as
implications”.
●ELT:
“The practice and theory of teaching English
for the benefit of people whose first
language is not English”

World Englishes and English language teaching:
As English has developed a plural sense, with its different varieties
designated world Englishes ;WE. Due to these geographical varieties,
English can be used as a “language of identification” along with being
“language of communication” . This global spread of English requires not
only a shift in our conception of English but also a shift in ELT practice. As
English has become a heterogenous language with multiple norms and
diverse grammars, it is the time for ELT professional or teacher to modify
his ELT practice and embrace diversity in varieties.

Pedagogical implications:
“The implications leading to political correction ,urging
teachers to include different varieties of English and users of
English and embrace diversity.”
• It deals with the teaching and learning aspect of varieties
like how specific variety has been taught or learnt.

Language awareness Sociolinguistics
sensitivity
Negotiation skills
❖ It is the need of hour
to engage with
multiple English
varieties and even
other
languages.There
must be relative
competence in new
varities according to
one's needs.
❖ ELT professional must
provide his students
with a sufficient
awareness of dialect
differences,identity
considerations,context
ual constraints and
cultural sensitivity in
order to tackle diverse
communities.
❖ One's proficiency must be
developed in strategies of
language
negotiation.Such a
proficieny might invlove
the following:
1.codeswitching,crossing
2.Speech accomodation
3.Interpersonal strategies
e.g.,
repair,rephrase,gestures,t
opic change
4 Attitudinal resources
i.e.,patience, tolerance
and humility to negotiate
differences.

Implications of spread for ELT:
Analyzing the implications of the global spread of English
ELT professionals might need to be aware of and attend to,
so they can successfully teach implications to their students.
Kachru has vastly contributed in order to give implications of
spread for ELT.
★ Kachru’s role:
Kachru (1996) called for the slaughter of the five sacred cows
of English: the acquisitional cow, theoretical cow, pedagogical
cow, sociolinguistic cow, and ideological cow.
• Sacrificing each of these sacred cows require a significant
paradigm shift.

Global literacy:: a new paradigm for EIL education.
“Global literacy is cross-cultural fluency and responsiveness in
understanding, engaging and communicating in an
interconnected world.”
● EIL educators should be aware of historical background of
how English has become lingua franca in many parts of the
world.
● Should clarify the true meaning of globalization in
multicultural context beyond orientalism and Occidentalism.
● Students must be aware of global literacy at basic level for
successful cross-cultural communication

Meta-culture competence:
“Meta-cultural competence refers to ‘a competence that enables
interlocutors to communicate and negotiate their cultural
conceptualizations during the process of intercultural communication”.
It involves three components:
● variation awareness.
● explication strategy.
● negotiation strategy.

Requirements for Pakistani students in Future:
Pakistani students have to develop their understanding about
the different perspectives and teachers should provide a deep
insight to the students about the thematic understanding of
the issues presented by Y Kachru in 2005.She classifies the
research interests in WE as:

cont...
1. Spread of English in history.
2. Linguistic variations.
3. Socio-cultural context.
4. Intelligibility for both local and global varieties.
5. Issues of bilingualism and multilingualism.
6. Issues like Linguistic imperialism.

WE implications in planning and policy:
• Language planning:
Language planning is basically all the conscious effort to change the
linguistic behavior of speech.Language planning occurs when there is
more than one language within the community.It is irrespective of number
size status and geography.
• Language policy:
According to Kaplan and Baldauf “ language policy is a body of ideas
loss regulations rules and practices the plants language change in the
society group system”

Recurrence of English in language policy:
● Inner circle
● Outer circle
● Expanding circle
The prominence of a language in a language policy is due to a
number of factors such as population, prestige ,status and
nationalism and English shares all these factors to the different
countries

Choice and hegemony of English:
Dominance of English in language policy is an effect of deliberate choice.
it is the language of globalization and opens the door of advancement. In
a survey of a post Imperial English in 20 countries it was found that
English was used in a different domain including education ,the media,
technology, , social contacts etc.

Most of the decision on the language policy
are taken by bureaucratic for example
1. they are taken by government and semi
government bodies
2. Their implementation rules are made by
bureaucrats
3. Elite class who really interested in
maintaining the status of English
responsible for decision making

Pennycook (1994)
“It seems to turn up Everywhere.”