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1. Literacy as Trilingual Practice

   Between Communities and Classrooms

   Edited by Suresh Canagarajah

   In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital communication, and globalism, increasing contact is taking place between languages and communities. In these contact zones new genres of writing and new textual conventions are emerging that go beyond traditional...

   To Be Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Translingual Practices

   Lingua Franca English and Global Citizenship

   By Suresh Canagarajah

   Translingual Practices: Lingua Franca English and Global Citizenship 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...

   To Be Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue

   Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas

   Edited by Mary Shepard Wong, Suresh Canagarajah

   The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual...

   Published June 9th 2011 by Routledge
4. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

   Edited by A. Suresh Canagarajah

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   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...

   Published November 29th 2004 by Routledge
5. Local Knowledge on Language and Education

   A Special Issue of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education

   Edited by Suresh Canagarajah

   This special issue demonstrates how local knowledge can productively complicate a few representative fields in the discipline--literacy practices, sociolinguistics and language death studies, English-language teaching, and bilingual education. The studies display that locality is indeed relational,...

   Published November 30th 2002 by CRC Press