Suresh Canagarajah
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Suresh Canagarajah | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a linguist. He is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a professor there since 2007. He researches World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He has published works on translingualism, translanguaging,[1] linguistic imperialism,[2] and social and political issues in language education.[3] His book, Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, has won three nationally recognized best book awards.[4][5][6]
He is a Tamil person. Canagarajah was born in Sri Lanka.
Selected publications
- Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. xxii-230.
- Canagarajah, A. (1999). Resisting linguistic imperialism in English language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Service work
- Canagarajah was Editor of TESOL Quarterly 2005-2010.
- He was president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011-2012.[7]
Important awards
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020 Best Book Award for Routledge Handbook for Migration and Language[5]
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Inaugural Best Book Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations[8]
- British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2014 Book Prize for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations[6]
- Modern Language Association of America 2012-2013 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations[4]
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2007 Richard Braddock Award for “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued"[9]
- Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching[4]
References
- ↑ Overstreet, Matthew. The Global Inevitable: A Review of Canagarajah's Translingual Practice. Enculturation (June 2, 2016). Retrieved September 20, 2018.
- ↑ Bhatt, Rakesh. Review of Suresh Canagarajah: Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Language in Society 31 (4) (2002). p. 631–635. doi:10.1017/S0047404502274059.
- ↑ Campbell, Lee. Review: 'A Geopolitics of Academic Writing'. Journal of Ancient Civilizations 23 (2) (2003). p. 455–459.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winners (in en). Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Book Award - American Association For Applied Linguistics. www.aaal.org. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Linguistics, British Association for Applied. Book Prize (in en-GB). BAAL. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
- ↑ Suresh Canagarajah – Department of English (in en-US). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ↑ AAALetter - March 2016 - American Association For Applied Linguistics. www.aaal.org. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
- ↑ CCCC Richard Braddock Award (in en-US). Conference on College Composition and Communication (2018-06-06). Retrieved 2022-12-02.