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 |
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,including codemeshing and language "shuttling." [3] [4] His book,Translingual Practice:Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, has won three nationally recognized best book awards. [5] [6] [7]