Aloha everyone,
Building up on last week's class about ELF and the NS/NNS dichotomy, I thought I would share two articles that may be of interest for some of you. Both are from Sarah Benesch, who is a professor of applied linguistics at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. She has done a lot of work with EAP students from a critical perspective and I would recommend her book Critical English for Academic Purposes (2001) to anyone who enjoys reading these two articles. Plus I got to meet her last year and she's super cool :-)
I uploaded the articles on my uh website, just click on the links to download them to your computer.
The first one (1996) is a great example of a critical approach to needs analysis for EAP programs
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chudeau/Benesch1996%20needs%20analysis.pdf
The second one (1999) is a 'rights analysis' that explores the power relations involved in NNS students' academic careers in an american university
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chudeau/Benesch1999%20rights%20analysis.pdf
Also, if you're interested in the topic, I'd be happy to share with you the critical pronunciation materials that Dr. Crookes and I piloted this semester for the ELI.
Happy reading!
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Nick-- Thanks for sharing the two articles with us. I always thought they were great, and I am surprised nobody has taken up on her point that needs are not neutral and already given, but vested with interests and created by power structures. Are you working on this area for your TBLT project?
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