ALS 2310 - Englishes of the World

Credits: 3 hrs

This course will familiarize the students with the global spread of English and its linguistic, social and cultural implications for the world’s nations as well as for international communication. The course aims at examining and re-evaluating concepts such as native speaker, non-native speaker, linguistic ownership, language variety as well as the new meaning attached to them in the globalized era. The course will serve as a course that satisfies some of the WSSU’s general education requirement as well as an elective course for students majoring in elementary educationwith an academic concentration in TESL.
Pre-requisite(s): Students should be at least in their sophmore year.
Student Learning Outcome: Critical Thinking
Area of Knowledge: Foreign Lang & Culture
Curricular Theme: Globalization