Covers a wide range of areas including international politics, colonial history, critical pedagogy, post colonial literature and applied linguistics to find ways to understand the cultural and political implications of the global spread of English. Explains how English has come to be seen as an international language by examining colonial origins, connections to linguistics and applied linguistics and relationships to the global spread of teaching practices, offers a new, critical approach, developing an alternative understanding through the concept of the 'worldliness, of English, includes separate chapters on English in Malaysia and Singapore. Readership: 3rd / 4th year undergraduate and postgraduate students of education, English and applied linguistics, for courses on teaching second languages, critical pedagogy, comparative education and world Englishes. Also for students of post-colonial literature and international relations.

Table of Contents:
The world in English: introduction - from Kurt Waldheim to Johnny Clegg, the natural, neutral and beneficial, spread of English, the social, cultural and political, contexts of English, the worldliness of English. Discourse and dependency in a shifting world: introduction - rethinking internationalism, development, aid and modernization, dependency and imperialism, culture, discourse, difference and disjuncture, cricket, English and cultural politics. English and colonialism - origins of a discourse: introduction - the complexities of colonialism - two sides of the colonial, English for the few - colonial education policies in Malaya, Anglicism and English studies. Spreading the word/disciplining the language: introduction - anti-nomadic disciplines, the disciplining of linguistics, the disciplining of applied linguistics, the spreading and disciplining discourse of EIL. ELT from development aid to global commodity: from cultural propaganda to global business - the British Council, "The West is better ..." - discourses of ELT, English language teaching practices as cultural practices. The worldliness of English in Malaysia: contexts, cultural politics after independence, Malay nationalism and English, English, class and ethnicity, English and Islam, English and the media, the debates continue. The worldliness of English in Singapore: English as a useful language, the making of Singapore, Singapore English, pragmatism, multiracialism and meritocratism, pragmatic, multiracial and meritocratic English. Writing back - the appropriation of English: post-colonial English, re-presenting post-colonial worlds, worldly texts in a worldly language, decentred voices - writing in Malaysia, centred voices - writing in Singapore, from aestheticism to yuppyism - the new writing in Singapore, from writing back to teaching back.; Towards a critical pedagogy for teaching English as a worldly language: critical pedagogies, discourse, language and subjectivity, insurgent knowledges, the classroom and the world. (Part contents).