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Towards a Kachru Institute

open access: yesWorld Englishes, 2019
AbstractIn September 1984, Braj Kachru suggested that an institutional archive for research on the English language across cultures should be set up. In Kachru's view, this project would include six strands of activity, including empirical sociolinguistic studies, pedagogical studies, resource materials, special registers, functional domains and formal
David Crystal
exaly   +3 more sources

Braj B. Kachru and Asian Englishes

World Englishes, 2019
AbstractThis article discusses the range and scope of Braj Kachru's interests in Indian English and Asian Englishes, which were crucial to the development of world Englishes as a whole. The article begins with a discussion of the WE paradigm shift and then proceeds to highlight Kachru's contribution to Asian Englishes before moving on to provide an ...
Kingsley Bolton
exaly   +2 more sources

The intellectual trajectory of Braj B. Kachru

World Englishes, 2019
AbstractBraj Kachru is a major figure in linguistics and English studies, and he has left us an intellectual legacy that speaks to a wide range of fields in language studies, including sociolinguistics, variation studies, bilingualism and multilingualism, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and teaching English as a second or foreign ...
Kamal K Sridhar
exaly   +2 more sources

Pedagogy and world Englishes: The legacy of Yamuna Kachru

World Englishes, 2015
ABSTRACTFrom the beginning of world Englishes (WE) as a field of study, Yamuna Kachru was a strong advocate for users of English in all circles. She consistently argued for language teaching and for language acquisition research that would acknowledge the diverse bilingual and multilingual contexts in which English is learned and used.
Margie Berns
exaly   +2 more sources

Yamuna Kachru

open access: yesEnglish World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2013
Lim, LLS
openaire   +4 more sources

Braj B. Kachru

Bill Ashcroft   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Remembering Braj B. Kachru

open access: yesWorld Englishes, 2019
Suzanne K. Hilgendorf
openaire   +2 more sources

BRAJ B. KACHRU’S QUESTIONS

The Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East, 2020
In this essay, the author shares his memories of the developing scholarly identity of Braj B. Kachru, the father-founder of the revolutionary linguistic conception now known as the World Englishes paradigm. The personality of the great scholar, stimulated by the social realities he observed and reflected, as well as by the support of outstanding ...
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Kachru revisits contrasts

English Today, 1996
YAMUNA KACHRU published the article “Contrastive rhetoric in world Englishes” in ET41 (Jan 95), prompting a letter from Reinhard Hartmann that appeared in ET42 (Apr 95). The following is Kachru's reply to Hartmann.
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