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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 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]
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 |
| Institutions | |
- 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.
- 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[7]
- 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"[8]
- Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching[4]
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