ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
This course is intended as a general introduction to the rich array of varieties of English used around the world and to the methods and resources for their analysis. The focus will be on the description of some of the most distinctive national and regional varieties of English worldwide. The most important objectives of the course are:
- To become familiar with the most characteristic features of different varieties of English.
- To recognize some of the most significant patterns of variation in English at different linguistic levels (orthography, phonology, vocabulary, morphology, syntax).
- To offer a basic methodological framework for the systematic comparison of varieties of English worldwide.
- To understand the historical processes which have given rise to the current spectrum of varieties of English.
- To develop a critical awareness of language diversity, variation, and change.
1. Preliminaries
1.1. Linguistic variation
1.2. Language, dialect and related concepts
1.3. The standard
1.4. Language attitudes
2. Materials for the study of varieties of English
2.1. The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (eWAVE)
2.2. Listening to varieties of English
2.3. Corpora
3. Models for the classification of World Englishes
3.1. Introduction
3.1.1. English in the world and world Englishes
3.1.2. The expansion of English
3.2. Theoretical models of English as a World language (cf. Buschfeld and Kautzsch 2020)
3.2.1. The Early Years (1970s-1990)
3.2.1.1.Quirk’s (1972, 1985) ENL/ESL/EFL distinction
3.2.1.2. Kachru’s (1985, 1992) Three Circles Model
3.2.1.3. McArthur’s (1987) Circle of World Englishes
3.2.1.4. Görlach’s (1990) model
3.2.2. Advancements in the Development of World Englishes Theorizing (1990-2010): diachronic turn
3.2.2.1. Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model
3.2.3. Recent Approaches to World Englishes
3.2.3.1. Mair’s (2013) The World System of Englishes: Focus on non-standard varieties
3.2.3.2. Buschfeld and Kautzsch’s (2017) EIF Model.
3.2.4. Linguistics and World Englishes
3.2.5. Current challenges
4. The reference varieties: British English vs. American English
4.1. Orthography
4.2. Phonology
4.3. Vocabulary
4.4. Grammar
5. Intra-national and international varieties of English
5.1. English in the British Isles
5.2. English in the United States
5.3. Other national standard norms: Australian English, New Zealand English, Canadian English, South African English
5.4. New Englishes: Some examples
Bauer, Laurie. 2002. An introduction to international varieties of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Cheshire, Jenny (ed.). 1991. English around the world. Sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crystal, David. 2003. English as a global language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Freeborn, Dennis. 1993. Varieties of English. 2nd edn. London: Macmillan.
Galloway, Nicola & Heath Rose. 2015. Introducing Global Englishes. London: Routledge.
Hughes, Arthur & Peter Trudgill. 1996. English accents and dialects. An introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles. 3rd edn. London: Arnold.
Jenkins, Jennifer. 2015. Global Englishes: A resource book for students. 3rd edn. London: Routledge.
Kortmann, Bernd & Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.). 2011. The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Available online at http://ewave-atlas.org/.
Kortmann, Bernd & Edgar Schneider (eds.). 2004. A handbook of varieties of English. A multimedia reference tool. Volume 1: Phonology. Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kachru, Braj B. 1985. “Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle”. In Randolph Quirk & H. G. Widdowson (eds.) English in the world: Teaching and learning the language and literatures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 11-31.
Kachru, Braj B., Yamuna Kachru & Cecil L. Nelson (eds.). 2006. The handbook of world Englishes. Oxford: Blackwell.
Mair, Christian. 2013. “The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the transnational importance of mobile and mediated vernaculars”. English World-Wide 34/3: 253-278.
McArthur, Tom. 1987. “The English Languages?” English Today 11: 9-13.
Mesthrie, Rajend & Rakesh M. Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schneider, Edgar W. 2007. Postcolonial English. Varieties around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schreier, Daniel, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider & Jeffrey P. Williams. 2010. The lesser-known varieties of English. An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Siemund, Peter. 2013. Varieties of English: A typological approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2012. Roots of English: Exploring the history of dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Trudgill, Peter. 1983. On dialect: Social and geographic perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell.
Trudgill, Peter. 1994. Dialects. London: Routledge.
Trudgill, Peter & Jean Hannah. 1994. International English. A guide to the varieties of Standard English. 3rd edn. London: Edward Arnold. Upton, Clive & J. D. A. Widdowson. 1996. An atlas of English dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1998. American English. Dialects and variation. Oxford: Blackwell.
CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CG1, CG8
There will be a combination of lectures and seminars focusing on the analysis of texts, work with audiovisual materials and individual or group activities. The use of complementary readings will be encouraged to allow students to broaden their theoretical knowledge and improve their understanding of the subject.
Expository sessions (total 32/2 hours per week): Each unit of the programme will be presented on the basis of the selected bibliography.
Interactive sessions (total 16/1 hour per week): Students will be required to do additional reading and homework to ensure their active participation in the lectures.
Part of the assignments and materials will be presented through the virtual platform. Approximately, students will have to complete one or two assignments per topic + a final presentation.
The standard evaluation system applying to the first opportunity has two components:
(a) Continuous assessment: 40%
- Attendance and active participation in the sessions during the course: 10%
- Periodical assignments on the different topics covered in the course: 15%
- Oral presentation (15%) on one variety of English to be carried out in class, before the official exam date.
(b) Final exam (60%). Course contents will be examined through a final written test which will take place on the official dates. The exam will include (among other things) a question on the presentation given by each student.
In order to pass the subject, it is necessary to obtain at least a 4 out of 10 in the final exam. If this were not the case, the maximum possible mark would be 4.5.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
(1) Second opportunity: The same system applies in the second opportunity, but note that the grade of the continuous evaluation in this opportunity will be the same as the one obtained in the first opportunity. This means that it will not be possible to resubmit any of the continuous assessment tasks.
(2) Those students who do not attend the final exam will obtain the mark ‘NP’ (absent), even if they have completed all the continuous assessment activities.
(3) The students who fail to attend more than 5 sessions (lectures and/or seminars) without due cause over the semester will lose the percentage corresponding to attendance and participation (10%).
(4) Students officially exempt from class attendance and who will therefore not follow a system of continuous assessment will be able to take a final written exam which will count as their only final mark (100%).
(5) Students who failed the subject in previous in academic years and are retaking this subject in 2024/25 will be evaluated following the general system described above (i.e. continuous assessment (40%) + final exam (60%)), unless they are unable to attend classes. In this case, they will need to inform the teacher at the beginning of the semester that they wish to be evaluated following the system that applies to students exempt from class attendance (i.e., with an exam worth 100% of the grade).
(6) All exercises and tests will be done in English. Overall correctness in language and in the use of formal conventions is indispensable. Critical awareness and correct handling of theoretical notions will also be highly valued.
(7) If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, this will bring about a direct fail in the subject, in application of article 16 of “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” :
“A realización fraudulenta dalgún exercicio ou proba exixida na avaliación dunha materia implicará a cualificación de suspenso na convocatoria correspondente, con independencia do proceso disciplinario que se poida seguir contra o alumno infractor. Considerarse fraudulenta, entre outras, a realización de traballos plaxiados ou obtidos de fontes accesibles ao público sen reelaboración ou reinterpretación e sen citas aos autores e das fontes”.
6 hours per week (approx.).
1) Students are expected to complete all assignments and readings suggested by the lecturer(s), and to come to the sessions prepared to discuss them.
2)Students must visit the eLearning platform for the course regularly. Students are expected to check their university email on a regular basis: announcements and last-minute changes will be notified via the teaching platform.
3) No emails using a non-institutional account will be replied by the teachers, so students must contact the teachers using their USC email account.
Susana Maria Doval Suarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811855
- susanamaria.doval [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Jorge Fernández Avilés
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811974
- jorgefernandez.aviles [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C02 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | D02-Teaching computer room |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | D02-Teaching computer room |
| 05.20.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C03 |
| 05.20.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C03 |
| 06.25.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C03 |
| 06.25.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C03 |