This compulsory subject is offered in the second term of the first year of the English Studies degree and belongs to the English Language Module. It looks at the spread of English outside England and its linguistic and sociolinguistic consequences. It is closely related to other subjects in the degree - English, the History and Culture of English-speaking Peoples, the History of the English Language, Varieties of English. The use of audiovisual materials and papers and articles which are sometimes gone through in class is meant to help students with their English as well.

COMPETENCES

This subject belongs to Module 02 English Language. Specifically, it aims at achieving the Module competence M02CM03: To become familiar with the sociocultural impact of the spread of English worldwide and with the effect of speaker attitudes on language use.



The achievement of the module competence above will entail partial fulfillment of the following degree competence and cross-curricular competence:

G005: To become familiar with the history, development and current varieties of English.

G007: To connect knowledge specific to the degree with knowledge in other areas and disciplines, to transmit it and to foster an attitude of tolerance towards multilingual and multicultural diversity.



LEARNING OUTCOMES

In this course students can

- describe the spread of English in the Modern period,

- locate the countries where it is used,

- identify its status and connections with other languages it is in contact with,

- analyse certain varieties of English,

- compare different attitudes towards English and comment on their influence on language policy and the teaching of English.

Unit 1. An English-speaking world

Unit 2. English before it spread

Unit 3. The spread to America

Unit 4. Black English

Unit 5. English-based pidgins and creoles in the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific

Unit 6. The spread to Canada and the American west

Unit 7. The spread to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

Unit 8. The use of English in Wales, Scotland and Ireland

Many units developed around an episode in the BBC series The Story of English. The classes are a mixture of lecturing and practical work. The episode is revised and added to, we look up places on maps, read short articles, watch other videos, answer questions, do exercises, make commentaries and do linguistic analysis, summarise papers, write assignments and present them to the class. Most of the in-class activities are in pairs or groups, which among other things is meant to help students improve their spoken English.

Homework is used as follow-up to the lectures or in preparation for them.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 50
  • Multiple-Choice Test (%): 20
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 30

As a form of continuous assessment by the teacher, students will take two tests evenly distributed throughout the course. The tests will be taken once the topics have been dealt with in class, and will carry a percentage of the final mark corresponding roughly to the amount of time devoted to them in the course, unless it seems reasonable to change that as the course progresses. Additional assessment tools and their contribution to the final mark will be explained on the first day of class. Unless otherwise indicated at the beginning of the course, the marks obtained from each assessment tool will be added to the rest to get the final mark. Marks from an assessment tool will only be added if the student gets a minimum of 40% of the mark in the tool, and getting at least that 40% is necessary to pass the subject. Also, the assessment tools can be passed, failed and retaken individually.



In the event of confinement or other situation making it impossible for exams to happen in a classroom, exams will be taken through Tarea, Cuestionario, etc on eGela or a virtual environment allowed by the university.



Unless otherwise stated, any complementary materials necessary to do the tests will be provided by the teacher. Use of any materials not provided by the teacher, as well as mobiles or other electronic devices, is strictly forbidden.



Following University of the Basque Country regulations, cheating – copying from the notes, the Internet, etc or a classmate – and plagiarism – using somebody’s ideas or words without attributing them to their true author – will result in a fail in the particular exam in which it happened, regardless of the extent of the offence.



Sample tests and marking schemes will be available on the eGela page for the subject at the beginning of the course.



Any modifications affecting the evaluation of this subject that happen after the latest date of publication of this Guía Docente, whatever their cause, will be agreed with the students and will be announced in the ‘Evaluation’ part of our eGela course. Students who do not attend class regularly can look up ‘Evaluation’ in eGela to be up to date.





Withdrawal from Continuous Assessment:

All students have the right to be evaluated according to the final evaluation procedure independently of whether or not they have participated in the continuous or mixed assessment module. In order to do so, they must write to the instructor responsible for the course expressing their desire to withdraw from continuous assessment. The form that needs to be filled is available at http://www.ehu.eus/eu/web/letrak/idazkaritza. For term courses students can do so within the first 9 weeks of the course, according to the academic calendar of their centre.



Withdrawal from an exam call: Withdrawal from a call will be assessed as “no grade reported” [no presentado/a, ez aurkeztua].

1. In the case of continuous assessment,

a. If the final exam is worth more than 40%: not sitting the exam on the official date of the exam qualifies as an automatic withdrawal from the corresponding call.

b. If the final exam is worth 40% or less: all students can withdraw from a call until at least one month before the date of the end of the teaching schedule of the corresponding course. This withdrawal must be submitted in writing to the instructor responsible for the course.

2. In the case of final assessment, not sitting the exam on the official date of the exam qualifies as an automatic withdrawal from the corresponding call.



The new regulation about assessment can be found here:

http://www.ehu.eus/es/web/estudiosdegrado-gradukoikasketak/ebaluaziorako-arautegia

The Convocatoria Extraordinaria will consist in an exam whose date is set and announced by the Faculty authorities. The conditions for passing this exam will be the same as in the Convocatoria Ordinaria. Students are allowed to repeat only that part they failed and keep the marks from that they passed, provided they got at least 40% of the marks carried by that part.



Independently of the assessment type chosen, students who fail to pass the first exam call will be able to take the same tests as those doing the final evaluation. The teacher may allow students not to repeat a test if they passed it in the first exam call.

The teacher's notes and the BBC series The Story of English (online). Other types of materials, mostly available online, will be announced and used during the course.

Basic bibliography

Crystal, D. 2003. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP. (The relevant section will be made available in your notes)

Crystal, D. English as a Global Language. Cambridge: CUP. (see Materiales de uso obligatorio above)



Bibliografía de profundización:

Beal, J. 2006. Language and Region. London: Routledge.

Biber, D., S. Conrad and G. Leech 2002. Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. The Workbook. Harlow: Longman.

Braine, G. (ed.) 2005. Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum and Practice. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Burns, A. and C. Coffin (eds.) 2001. Analyzing English in a Global Context. A Reader. London: Routledge.

Crystal, D. 2004. The Stories of English. London: Penguin.

Gerbig, A. and A. Müller-Wood (eds.) 2006. How Globalization Affects the Teaching of English: Studying Culture Through Texts. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Graddol, D., D. Leith, J. Swann and M. Rhys 2007. Changing English. London: Routledge.

Hickey, R. (ed.) 2005. Legacies of Colonial English. Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: CUP.

Jenkins, J. 2009. World Englishes. London: Routledge.

Kachru, B.B., Y. Kachru and C.L. Nelson (eds.) 2006. The Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kachru, Y. and L.E. Smith 2008. Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes. London: Routledge.

In-depth bibliography

Kirkpatrick, A. 2007. World Englishes. Implications for international communication and English language teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
Knowles, G. 1997. A Cultural History of English. London: Arnold.
Kouwenberg, S. and J.V. Singler 2008. The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Leith, D. 1997. A Social History of English. London: Routledge.
Machan, T.W. 2009. Language Anxiety. Conflict and Change in the History of English. Oxford: OUP.
McArthur, T. 1998. The English Languages. Cambridge: CUP.
McArthur, T. 2003. The Oxford Guide to World English. Oxford: OUP.
McKay, S.L. and W.D. Bokhorst-Heng 2008. International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts. London: Routledge.
Melchers, G. and P. Shaw 2003. World Englishes. Oxford: OUP.
Mesthrie, J. and R.M. Bhatt 2008. World Englishes. The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: CUP.
Moran, J. 2002. Interdisciplinarity. London: Routledge.
Pennycook, A. 2007. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge.
Phillipson, R. 1992. Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford: OUP.
Quirk, R. and H.G. Widdowson 1985. English in the World. Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Cambridge: CUP.
Richardson, E.B. 2007. Hiphop Literacies. London: Routledge.
Riley, P. 2007. Language, Culture and Identity. London: Continuum.
Rubdy, R. and M. Saraceni (eds.) 2006. English in the World. Global Rules, Global Roles. London: Continuum.
Schneider, E.W. 2007. Postcolonial English. Varieties around the world. Cambridge: CUP.
Svartvik, J. and G. Leech 2006. English ¿ One Tongue, Many Voices. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Watts, R. and P. Trudgill 2002. Alternative Histories of English. London: Routledge.
Williams, E. 2006. Bridges and Barriers. Language in African Education and Development. Manchester: St Jerome Publishing.

Journals

English Today, English Worldwide, World Englishes

Video-DVD:
Beyond Babel. English on the World Stage
The Story of English

Web addresses

The relevant videos in LangFocus
E.L. Easton - English Around the World
http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html
Language Varieties
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet
David Crystal
http://www.davidcrystal.com
William Labov
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/home.html
Salikoko Mufwene
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/
John Rickford
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/
Voice of the Shuttle: Other Literatures in English
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2748
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page