Suresh Canagarajah
Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a Tamil-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2007. His research covers World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He is known for work on translingualism,[1][2] translanguaging,[3] linguistic imperialism,[4] and social and political issues in language education.[5]
Suresh Canagarajah | |
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| Known for | Work on translanguaging and linguistic imperialism |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Negotiating competing discourses and identities: A sociolinguistic analysis of challenges in academic writing for minority students (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | English as a second or foreign language |
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References
- Canagarajah, Suresh (2012-12-12). Translingual Practice. doi:10.4324/9780203073889. ISBN 9780203073889.
- Canagarajah, Suresh (2013-03-05). Literacy as Translingual Practice. doi:10.4324/9780203120293. ISBN 9780203120293.
- Overstreet, Matthew (June 2, 2016). "The Global Inevitable: A Review of Canagarajah's Translingual Practice". Enculturation. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
- Bhatt, Rakesh (2002). "Review of Suresh Canagarajah: Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching". Language in Society. 31 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1017/S0047404502274059.
- Campbell, Lee (2003). "Review: 'A Geopolitics of Academic Writing'". Journal of Ancient Civilizations. 23 (2): 455–459. JSTOR 20866575.
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