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ERIC Number: EJ981499
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0826-435X
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Languages without Borders: TESOL in a Transient World
Nero, Shondel
TESL Canada Journal, v29 n2 p143-154 Spr 2012
In today's transient world, where a continual multidirectional flow of people, goods, and services has deterritorialized languages and their users, languages, especially English, are now without borders. In this context, English language teaching (ELT) as a profession is called to a new task. In this article, I examine this task by asking the fundamental question: What does/should English-language teaching and learning look like in a world of languages without borders? I discuss the changing faces of English within and beyond the field of TESOL. I argue that the spread and natural evolution of English itself, combined with the transience in the population of English-language users, have forced a reexamination of the goals of English-language learning and teaching as well as a reconceptualization of the English language itself along with sacredly held paradigms in ELT. (Contains 2 notes.)
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Language: English
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