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Will Baker. Research into global uses of English, and particularly ELF (English as a Lingua Franca), has highlighted the diversity and fluidity of communicative practices in intercultural and...
Doctor Will Baker is a Associate Professor at the University of Southampton.
- Associate Professor
Will Baker is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests are English as a Lingua Franca, Intercultural and Transcultural Communication, English medium instruction (EMI), Intercultural education, Intercultural Citizenship and English ...
- Introduction
- Globalization, English as A Lingua Franca, and ELT
- Culture, Language, and ELT
- Cultural Awareness
- Ica
- Applying Ica in Classroom Teaching
- Conclusion
The cultural dimension to language has always been present in language pedagogy (Risager 2007), even if it is not always explicit. Given the closely intertwined nature of culture and language, it is difficult to teach language without an acknowledgement of the cultural context in which it is used. Indeed, culture has been a component of our underst...
Globalization affects all English language teachers from their choices of what materials to use, to which variety of English is most appropriate. As Block (2004) highlights, the role of English in globalization is multifaceted and neither exclusively benign nor evil. Furthermore, the extensive use of English in such a diverse range of global settin...
As already noted, knowledge of the lexis, grammar, and phonology of one particular ‘linguistic code’ (for example Standard British English) is not adequate for successful intercultural communication through English. This needs to be supplemented by an understanding of the sociocultural context in which communication takes place and an understanding...
An approach to conceptualizing the kinds of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to undertake successful intercultural communication, which explicitly recognizes the cultural dimension of communicative competence, has been CA (see for example Tomalin and Stempleski 1993; Byram 1997). At the most basic level, CA can be defined as a conscious unde...
ICA is best conceived as an extension of the earlier conceptions of CA that is more relevant to needs of intercultural communication in expanding circle and global lingua franca contexts, in which cultural influences are likely to be varied, dynamic, and emergent. A basic definition of ICA, as envisaged here, is as follows: To better understand thi...
While, as indicated above, the manner in which ICA can be made relevant to different learning contexts will depend partly on that context, there are a number of broad areas, which can be used to develop ICA within the ELT classroom. These are presented here as a set of suggestions, not all of which will be relevant in all settings. Equally, there m...
The use of English as the global lingua franca highlights the need for an understanding of cultural contexts and communicative practices to successfully communicate across diverse cultures. Yet, it also raises the problem of naively associating the English language with a specific culture or nation. Traditional conceptions of communicative competen...
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13 feb 2017 · In a statement emailed to CBC Sunday, Shaw said she's afraid Li, whose name is now Will Baker, could stop taking medication for the schizophrenia that led to the fatal incident.
Li—now known as Will Baker—was sitting on a bus making a 14-hour journey from Edmonton to Winnipeg when the voices came for him. A few seats away from him sat the sleeping figure of a young...
