Interesting articles

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!