A Suresh Canagarajah
Biographic Data
| ID | 118729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Suresh Canagarajah |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Suresh |
| FAMILY NAME | Canagarajah |
| SIGNATURE | CANAGARAJAH A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania United States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Negotiating Translingual Literacy: An Enactment
This article argues that an understanding of writing as translingual requires a shift to a different orientation to literacy—i.e., from autonomous and situated to negotiated. Such an orientationtreats the text as co-constructed in time and space—with parity for readers and writers in shaping the meaning and form—and thus performed rather than preconstructed, making the multimodal and multisensory dimensions of the text fully functional. Going bey…
Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations
Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014 Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual …
Teacher Development in a Global Profession: An Autoethnography
In this ethnographic self‐reconstruction, the author represents the ways in which he negotiated the differing teaching practices and professional cultures of the periphery and the center in an effort to develop a strategic professional identity. He brings out the importance of using multiple identities critically for voice in the wider professional discourses and practices. As global English acquires local identities, and diverse professional com…
Language shift and the family: Questions from the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora1
Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS) emphasizes the family in maintaining the heritage languages of immigrant communities. This study uses interview data from Sri Lankan Tamil communities in the U.S.A., U.K., and Canada to explain how families account for the rapid loss of Tamil in the diaspora. It shows how the positive valuation of English since British colonization, the need to make up for past deprivations because of cas…
The Ecology of Global English
The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in a move toward gradually pluralizing academic writing and developing multilingual competence for transnational relationships.
Tesol at Forty: What Are the Issues
This overview delineates the direction of pedagogical developments since the 25th anniversary issue of TESOL Quarterly. Three tendencies characterize our professional practice: (a) a continuation along the earlier lines of progression (i.e., in opening up the classroom to learning opportunities, integrating skills, and teaching for specific purposes); (b) a radical reorientation along new paradigms (i.e., in understanding motivation and acquisiti…
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indir…
Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities
In the context of globalization and post-modern discourses, the debate about the relative status of local and dominant languages poses serious policy problems for post-colonial communities. Critics of minority language rights (MLR) generally point out that engineering a language shift on behalf of a vernacular language - motivated by the preservationist interests, collective rights and sentimental associations of an ethnic group - is futile, as t…
A Geopolitics Of Academic Writing
1. Contextualizing Academic Writing -- 2. Communities of Knowledge Construction -- 3. Conventions in Knowledge Construction -- 4. Textual Conventions in Conflict -- 5. Publishing Requirements and Material Constraints -- 6. Literacy Practices and Academic Culture -- 7. Poverty and Power in Knowledge Production -- 8. Reform, Resistance, Reconstruction.
“Nondiscursive” Requirements in Academic Publishing, Material Resources of Periphery Scholars, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Although some consideration has been given to the manner in which academic discourse is culture-bound, how the “nondiscursive” conventions and requirements of academic publishing can serve exclusionary functions has not been adequately explored. Meeting the latter requirements is contingent upon the availability of certain material resources. Reflecting on personal experience in trying to meet such requirements from an under-developed region, the…
From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting
Robert Phillipson, Linguistic imperialism. (Oxford applied linguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 365
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Manipulating the context: The use of English borrowings as a discourse strategy by Tamil fish vendors
L'etude examine les strategies discursives associees a l'utilisation des emprunts anglais chez les vendeurs de poissons tamils au cours de leurs interactions. Bien que le type d'emprunts reflete une competence limitee en anglais et un faible statut socio-economique, l'usage de ces emprunts montre une complexite rhetorique et sociale
Functions of codeswitching in ESL classrooms: Socialising bilingualism in Jaffna
This study analyses codeswitched utterances in ESL classes of 24 secondary school teachers in Jaffna (Sri Lanka). Although teachers are mostly unaware of using or permitting Tamil, and even consider it inappropriate for ESL classrooms, the study shows some useful functions codeswitching serves for classroom management and transmission of lesson content. The negotiation of values, identities and roles through codeswitching during the unintended op…
"The political economy of code choice in a "revolutionary society: Tamil-English bilingualism in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
This article explores the persistence of Tamil-English bilingualism in the Marxist/Nationalist de-facto separate state of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) through an integrated macro- and micro-sociolinguistic analysis of code choice in the community. While Tamil is dominant at present, the international hegemony of English is nevertheless subtly felt. There are now few L2 dominant or balanced bilinguals; grammatical competence in "standard English" is declini…
Competing discourses in Sri Lankan English poetry
The realization that language is ideological has created a debate among postcolonial English writers on what language to use for their creative expression and how. While Ngügï wa Thiong'o has argued for the abandonment of English and the sole use of native languages, Gabriel Okara has argued for the fusion of the native and English discourses, thus constructing an alternate discourse that is ideologically satisfying for native aspirations while b…
"Comments on Ann Raimes's "Out of the Woods: "Emerging Traditions in the Teaching of Writing". Up the Garden Path: Second Language Writing Approaches, Local Knowledge, and Pluralism
0 Ann Raimes's remarkably readable article (Vol. 25, No. 3,) covers quite comprehensively the history of L2 approaches to teaching writing, including the methods of instruction and research tradition influenced by each approach. Although she uses the motif of a fairy tale journey through the woods by L2 scholars in search of new approaches, she judiciously refrains from championing any single approach in order to avoid taking false trails. Rather…
American textbooks and Tamil students: Discerning ideological tensions in the ESL classroom
This paper illustrates how teacher‐conducted classroom research can interrogate ideological tensions in the ESL classroom. Using a post‐structuralist perspective on language and discourse, the paper interprets the verbal and visual signs constituting the American textbook and the graffiti scribbled by students in the margins. The pedagogical assumption of learning as a value‐free utilitarian activity, combined with content that is loaded with urb…
Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Classroom: Ambiguities in Student Opposition to Reproduction through Esol
The article argues that the way in which domination is experienced and oppositional tendencies are formed in classroom life have to be observed closely rather than conceived abstractly. This ethnographic study of 22 tertiary-level Tamil students following a mandatory English for general purposes (EGP) course reveals that whereas the lived culture displays opposition to the alienating discourses inscribed in a U.S. textbook, the students affirm in…
Language shift and the family: Questions from the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora1
Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS) emphasizes the family in maintaining the heritage languages of immigrant communities. This study uses interview data from Sri Lankan Tamil communities in the U.S.A., U.K., and Canada to explain how families account for the rapid loss of Tamil in the diaspora. It shows how the positive valuation of English since British colonization, the need to make up for past deprivations because of cas…
Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Classroom: Ambiguities in Student Opposition to Reproduction through Esol
The article argues that the way in which domination is experienced and oppositional tendencies are formed in classroom life have to be observed closely rather than conceived abstractly. This ethnographic study of 22 tertiary-level Tamil students following a mandatory English for general purposes (EGP) course reveals that whereas the lived culture displays opposition to the alienating discourses inscribed in a U.S. textbook, the students affirm in…
Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities
In the context of globalization and post-modern discourses, the debate about the relative status of local and dominant languages poses serious policy problems for post-colonial communities. Critics of minority language rights (MLR) generally point out that engineering a language shift on behalf of a vernacular language - motivated by the preservationist interests, collective rights and sentimental associations of an ethnic group - is futile, as t…
Teacher Development in a Global Profession: An Autoethnography
In this ethnographic self‐reconstruction, the author represents the ways in which he negotiated the differing teaching practices and professional cultures of the periphery and the center in an effort to develop a strategic professional identity. He brings out the importance of using multiple identities critically for voice in the wider professional discourses and practices. As global English acquires local identities, and diverse professional com…
Tesol at Forty: What Are the Issues
This overview delineates the direction of pedagogical developments since the 25th anniversary issue of TESOL Quarterly. Three tendencies characterize our professional practice: (a) a continuation along the earlier lines of progression (i.e., in opening up the classroom to learning opportunities, integrating skills, and teaching for specific purposes); (b) a radical reorientation along new paradigms (i.e., in understanding motivation and acquisiti…
From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting
Functions of codeswitching in ESL classrooms: Socialising bilingualism in Jaffna
This study analyses codeswitched utterances in ESL classes of 24 secondary school teachers in Jaffna (Sri Lanka). Although teachers are mostly unaware of using or permitting Tamil, and even consider it inappropriate for ESL classrooms, the study shows some useful functions codeswitching serves for classroom management and transmission of lesson content. The negotiation of values, identities and roles through codeswitching during the unintended op…
American textbooks and Tamil students: Discerning ideological tensions in the ESL classroom
This paper illustrates how teacher‐conducted classroom research can interrogate ideological tensions in the ESL classroom. Using a post‐structuralist perspective on language and discourse, the paper interprets the verbal and visual signs constituting the American textbook and the graffiti scribbled by students in the margins. The pedagogical assumption of learning as a value‐free utilitarian activity, combined with content that is loaded with urb…
Manipulating the context: The use of English borrowings as a discourse strategy by Tamil fish vendors
L'etude examine les strategies discursives associees a l'utilisation des emprunts anglais chez les vendeurs de poissons tamils au cours de leurs interactions. Bien que le type d'emprunts reflete une competence limitee en anglais et un faible statut socio-economique, l'usage de ces emprunts montre une complexite rhetorique et sociale
"The political economy of code choice in a "revolutionary society: Tamil-English bilingualism in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
This article explores the persistence of Tamil-English bilingualism in the Marxist/Nationalist de-facto separate state of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) through an integrated macro- and micro-sociolinguistic analysis of code choice in the community. While Tamil is dominant at present, the international hegemony of English is nevertheless subtly felt. There are now few L2 dominant or balanced bilinguals; grammatical competence in "standard English" is declini…
"Comments on Ann Raimes's "Out of the Woods: "Emerging Traditions in the Teaching of Writing". Up the Garden Path: Second Language Writing Approaches, Local Knowledge, and Pluralism
0 Ann Raimes's remarkably readable article (Vol. 25, No. 3,) covers quite comprehensively the history of L2 approaches to teaching writing, including the methods of instruction and research tradition influenced by each approach. Although she uses the motif of a fairy tale journey through the woods by L2 scholars in search of new approaches, she judiciously refrains from championing any single approach in order to avoid taking false trails. Rather…
American textbooks and Tamil students: Discerning ideological tensions in the ESL classroom
This paper illustrates how teacher‐conducted classroom research can interrogate ideological tensions in the ESL classroom. Using a post‐structuralist perspective on language and discourse, the paper interprets the verbal and visual signs constituting the American textbook and the graffiti scribbled by students in the margins. The pedagogical assumption of learning as a value‐free utilitarian activity, combined with content that is loaded with urb…
Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Classroom: Ambiguities in Student Opposition to Reproduction through Esol
The article argues that the way in which domination is experienced and oppositional tendencies are formed in classroom life have to be observed closely rather than conceived abstractly. This ethnographic study of 22 tertiary-level Tamil students following a mandatory English for general purposes (EGP) course reveals that whereas the lived culture displays opposition to the alienating discourses inscribed in a U.S. textbook, the students affirm in…
Competing discourses in Sri Lankan English poetry
The realization that language is ideological has created a debate among postcolonial English writers on what language to use for their creative expression and how. While Ngügï wa Thiong'o has argued for the abandonment of English and the sole use of native languages, Gabriel Okara has argued for the fusion of the native and English discourses, thus constructing an alternate discourse that is ideologically satisfying for native aspirations while b…
Robert Phillipson, Linguistic imperialism. (Oxford applied linguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 365
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Manipulating the context: The use of English borrowings as a discourse strategy by Tamil fish vendors
L'etude examine les strategies discursives associees a l'utilisation des emprunts anglais chez les vendeurs de poissons tamils au cours de leurs interactions. Bien que le type d'emprunts reflete une competence limitee en anglais et un faible statut socio-economique, l'usage de ces emprunts montre une complexite rhetorique et sociale
Functions of codeswitching in ESL classrooms: Socialising bilingualism in Jaffna
This study analyses codeswitched utterances in ESL classes of 24 secondary school teachers in Jaffna (Sri Lanka). Although teachers are mostly unaware of using or permitting Tamil, and even consider it inappropriate for ESL classrooms, the study shows some useful functions codeswitching serves for classroom management and transmission of lesson content. The negotiation of values, identities and roles through codeswitching during the unintended op…
"The political economy of code choice in a "revolutionary society: Tamil-English bilingualism in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
This article explores the persistence of Tamil-English bilingualism in the Marxist/Nationalist de-facto separate state of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) through an integrated macro- and micro-sociolinguistic analysis of code choice in the community. While Tamil is dominant at present, the international hegemony of English is nevertheless subtly felt. There are now few L2 dominant or balanced bilinguals; grammatical competence in "standard English" is declini…
“Nondiscursive” Requirements in Academic Publishing, Material Resources of Periphery Scholars, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Although some consideration has been given to the manner in which academic discourse is culture-bound, how the “nondiscursive” conventions and requirements of academic publishing can serve exclusionary functions has not been adequately explored. Meeting the latter requirements is contingent upon the availability of certain material resources. Reflecting on personal experience in trying to meet such requirements from an under-developed region, the…
From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting
A Geopolitics Of Academic Writing
1. Contextualizing Academic Writing -- 2. Communities of Knowledge Construction -- 3. Conventions in Knowledge Construction -- 4. Textual Conventions in Conflict -- 5. Publishing Requirements and Material Constraints -- 6. Literacy Practices and Academic Culture -- 7. Poverty and Power in Knowledge Production -- 8. Reform, Resistance, Reconstruction.
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indir…
Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities
In the context of globalization and post-modern discourses, the debate about the relative status of local and dominant languages poses serious policy problems for post-colonial communities. Critics of minority language rights (MLR) generally point out that engineering a language shift on behalf of a vernacular language - motivated by the preservationist interests, collective rights and sentimental associations of an ethnic group - is futile, as t…
The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in a move toward gradually pluralizing academic writing and developing multilingual competence for transnational relationships.
Tesol at Forty: What Are the Issues
This overview delineates the direction of pedagogical developments since the 25th anniversary issue of TESOL Quarterly. Three tendencies characterize our professional practice: (a) a continuation along the earlier lines of progression (i.e., in opening up the classroom to learning opportunities, integrating skills, and teaching for specific purposes); (b) a radical reorientation along new paradigms (i.e., in understanding motivation and acquisiti…
The Ecology of Global English
Language shift and the family: Questions from the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora1
Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS) emphasizes the family in maintaining the heritage languages of immigrant communities. This study uses interview data from Sri Lankan Tamil communities in the U.S.A., U.K., and Canada to explain how families account for the rapid loss of Tamil in the diaspora. It shows how the positive valuation of English since British colonization, the need to make up for past deprivations because of cas…
Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations
Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014 Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual …
Teacher Development in a Global Profession: An Autoethnography
In this ethnographic self‐reconstruction, the author represents the ways in which he negotiated the differing teaching practices and professional cultures of the periphery and the center in an effort to develop a strategic professional identity. He brings out the importance of using multiple identities critically for voice in the wider professional discourses and practices. As global English acquires local identities, and diverse professional com…
Negotiating Translingual Literacy: An Enactment
This article argues that an understanding of writing as translingual requires a shift to a different orientation to literacy—i.e., from autonomous and situated to negotiated. Such an orientationtreats the text as co-constructed in time and space—with parity for readers and writers in shaping the meaning and form—and thus performed rather than preconstructed, making the multimodal and multisensory dimensions of the text fully functional. Going bey…
Sociology (19 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (11 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (6 works)