Suresh canagarajah biography
Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a Tamil-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English.!
Suresh Canagarajah
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.
Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a Sri Lankan Tamil scholar in the fields of sociolinguistics, literacy, and English language teaching.
He has published works on translingualism, translanguaging,[1]linguistic imperialism,[2] and social and political issues in language education.[3] His book, Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, has won three nationally recognized best book awards.[4][5][6]
Selected publications
- Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations.
New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. xxii-230.
- Canagarajah, A. (1999). Resisting linguistic imperialism in English language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.