Professor Jennifer Jenkins

Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Chair of English Language and Director of the Centre for Applied Language Research (CALR)

Location: 65/3001
Extension: 27046
Telephone: (023) 8059 7046
Fax: (023) 8059 3288
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Biographical notes

I studied English language and literature, Old Icelandic, and linguistics/applied linguistics at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and London, and in the earlier years of my career, was first an English language teacher then teacher trainer. From 1992 to mid-2007 I worked at King's College London, where I designed and directed the MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics, and since then have been Professor of English Language at Southampton. I am also the Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and a member of the TESOL Quarterly Editorial Advisory Board.

Qualifications: BA, DipTEFLA, PhD

Teaching interests

My teaching interests include World Englishes/English as a Lingua Franca, Sociolinguistics, and English phonology/phonetics.

Research expertise

My main research interests are in World Englishes in general, and English as a Lingua Franca in particular. My last major research project was an investigation into attitudes towards non-native English accents and the effects of these attitudes on non-native English teachers' identities (see Recent Publications below). I am currently researching the implications of the spread of English for international students in both Bristish universities and English medium universities in Europe and East Asia.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome proposals for doctoral research projects on any aspect of World Englishes. Areas of particular interest include:

all aspects of English as a Lingua Franca
language ideological debates relating to global Englishes
intelligibility issues relating to the spread of English
attitudes towards varieties of English (especially accents)
English language and identity

Current supervision

I am currently supervising eleven doctoral students: Robert Baird, Nicola
Galloway, Najma Husain, Mariko Kitazawa, Hsiu-ya Lee, Jiyeon Lee, Kanghee Lee, Toshie Mimatsu, Sean Sutherland, Ying Wang, Robert Weekly, and advisor to Kamphee Noonkhan, Wisut Jarunthawatchai, and Panawat Wattanavit. The majority of these students are researching aspects of World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca.

Current research projects

Leader of LINEE Work Package 7a: Learning, use and perceptions of English as a Lingua Franca communication in European contexts

This collaborative project with partners in Southampton, Szeged and Prague forms part of the wider LINEE network funded under the EU 6th Framework (Languages in a Network of European Excellence). The team is conducting research into the acquisition of ELF and its use in conversational settings, and into European non-native and native English speakers’ perceptions of effective ELF communication. The research will enable us to draw conclusions about English language learning and teaching in multilingual environments, about perceived links between effective communication and correctness according to native-speaker English norms, about the awareness of/value placed on communication skills such as accommodation and codeswitching, and about native English speakers’ ability to communicate in European ELF settings. (See www.linee.info)

Recent Keynotes, plenaries and invited talks

'Global challenges to standard/'standard' English policy and practice'. Keynote paper at the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics international conference, Language Policy and Language Learning: New challenges and paradigms, Limerick, June 2009.
‘ELF and the international university’. Keynote paper at the Annual International CALPIU (Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University) Conference, Roskilde, December 2008.
‘English as a Lingua Franca: a more relevant approach to English education in Japan?’. Keynote paper at the 47th JACET Convention, Tokyo, September 2008.
‘European ELF: attitude and identity’. Invited paper in the symposium ‘Reconciling multilingualism with English as a lingua franca: realistic policy or wishful thinking?’ at the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Essen, August 2008.
‘ELF or ENL for English-medium universities?’, invited colloquium paper at the international conference Language Issues in English-medium Universities, University of Hong Kong, June 2008.
‘Does English as a Lingua Franca have relevance for English teaching in Hong Kong?’. Plenary paper at the inaugural roundtable of the Research Centre into Language Education in Multilingual Societies, ‘The respective roles of English and local languages’, Hong Kong Institute of Education, June 2008.
‘(Un)pleasant? (in)correct? (un)intelligible? ELF speakers’ perceptions of their accents. Opening keynote paper at the First International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Helsinki, March 2008.
‘ELF still at the gate: attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca’. Keynote paper at the International Conference on Global English. Verona, February 2008.
‘The changing face of English’. Opening keynote paper at the 24th Annual Conference of ETAS (English Teachers’ Association of Switzerland), Lugano, January 2008.
‘English as a Lingua Franca: interpretations and attitudes’. Invited talk at the 13th Annual Conference of the International Association of World Englishes, Regensburg, October 2007.
‘EAP as an academic lingua franca’. Closing plenary at the annual BALEAP conference, Durham, April 2007.
‘The English language learner as learner of English as a Lingua Franca’. Invited paper in Spotlight Session ‘Reconceptualizing the contemporary English language learner’, 41st Annual TESOL Convention, Seattle, March 2007.
‘English as a Lingua Franca: which English, why, and who for?’. Keynote paper at the Association for Terminology and Lexicography annual conference, Guildford, January 2007.

Recent and significant publications

Monographs and edited volumes

Global Englishes in Asian Contexts: Current and Future Debates (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2009, ed. with Kumiko Murata).
World Englishes. A resource book for students (London: Routledge, 2009), 2nd ed. extensively revised.
English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Reconfiguring Europe: The Contribution of Applied Linguistics (edited with Constant Leung, London: Equinox, 2006).
World Englishes. A resource book for students (London: Routledge, 2003).
The Phonology of English as an International Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Short-listed for 2001 BAAL Book Prize and 2003 British Council Innovation Award (ELTON); prize winner in 2001 English Speaking Union Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Selected journal articles and book chapters

With Martin Dewey, ‘English as a Lingua Franca in the global context: interconnectedness, variation, and change’. In T. Omoniyi & M. Saxena eds. Contending with Globalization in World Englishes. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters (2010).
With M. Berns, M. Modiano, B. Seidlhofer & Y. Yano, ‘Perspectives on English as a lingua franca’. In T. Hoffmann & L. Siebers eds. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. Selected papers from the 13th IAWE Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
‘English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle: focus on East Asia’. In K. Murata & J. Jenkins eds. Global Englishes in Asian Contexts. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2009).
‘(Un)pleasant? (in)correct? (un)intelligible? ELF speakers’ perceptions of their accents. In A. Mauranen & E. Ranta eds. English as Lingua Franca: Studies and Findings. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press (2009).
‘English as a Lingua Franca: interpretations and attitudes’. World Englishes 28/1 (2009).
'English pronunciation teaching and second language speaker identity ' in ‘t Omoniyi & G. White eds. The Sociolinguistics of Identity, pp.75-90, London: Continuum (2006).
'Points of view and blind spots: ELF and SLA', International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16/2, pp.137-162 (July 2006).
'Current perspectives on teaching World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca'. TESOL Quarterly 40/1, pp.157-181 (March 2006).
'The spread of English as an international language: A testing time for testers', ELT Journal 60/1, pp.42-50 (Jan 2006).
'Global intelligibility and local diversity: Possibility or paradox?'. In R. Rubdy & M. Saraceni eds. English in the World: Global Rules, Global Roles pp.32-39, London: Continuum (2006).
'English as a Lingua Franca: Past empirical, present controversial, future uncertain'. In J. Foley ed. New Dimensions in the Teaching of oral communication, Proceedings of the 40th SEAMEO RELC International Seminar, pp.1-19 (Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (2005).
'Implementing an international approach to English pronunciation: The role of teacher attitudes and identity', TESOL Quarterly 39/3, pp.535-543 (Sept 2005)
'Misinterpretation, bias, and resistance to change: The case of the Lingua Franca Core'. In K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk & J. Przedlacka eds English Pronunciation Models: A changing scene, pp.199-210, Berlin: Peter Lang (2005, 2^nd ed. 2009).
'Respecting diversity, promoting intelligibility: The challenge for English as an International Language', Perspectives, Journal of TESOL-Italy XXII/1, pp.11-21 (Spring 2005).
With Jane Setter, 'Teaching pronunciation: A state of the art review', Language Teaching 17/1, pp.1-17 (2005).
'Teaching English pronunciation: A socio-political perspective'. In C. Gnutzmann & F. Intemann eds. The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom, pp.145-158, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (2005, 2^nd ed. 2009).
'ELF at the gate: The position of English as a Lingua Franca', European Messenger 13/2, pp.63-68 (2004).
'Research in teaching pronunciation and intonation', Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 24, pp.109-125 (2004).
'Intelligibility in lingua franca discourse', in J. Burton & C. Clennell eds. Developing Interactive Skills in Spoken Discourse, pp.83-97, Alexandria, VA: TESOL Publications (2003).
With Barbara Seidlhofer, 'English as a lingua franca and the politics of property'. In C. Mair ed. The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies, pp.139-154, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (2003).
'A sociolinguistically-based, empirically-researched pronunciation syllabus for English as an International Language', Applied Linguistics 23/1, 2002, pp.83-103. Reprinted in: G. Cook & S. North eds. Applied Linguistics in Action. London: Routledge (2009).
'Pronunciation goals for EAL: By default or by design?'. In C. Leung ed. Language and Additional/Second Language Issues for School Education, pp.59-68, York: NALDIC (2002).
'What standard for English as an International Language?'. In E.L. Low & S.C. Teng eds. The Teaching and Use of Standard English, pp.25-32, Singapore: Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics (2002).
With Marko Modiano & Barbara Seidlhofer, 'Euro-English: An emerging lingua franca of mainland Europe', English Today 17/4, pp.13-19 (2001).

Conference organisation

Co-organiser of the 2009 2nd International English as a Lingua Franca Conference

Convenor of GES (Global Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca Studies)

GES is a group launched in February 2008 for staff and doctoral students interested in following developments in English use around the world and conducting research into these.

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Jennifer Jenkins
Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
English as a World Language	LING6014	Linguistics	Course leader
English as a World Language: online	LING6025	Linguistics	Course leader
Introduction to the English Language in its global context	LING1002	Linguistics	Course leader
Description of Language	LING6004	Linguistics	Tutor
Research and Enquiry in Applied Linguistics 2	LING6002	Linguistics	Tutor

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Jenkins, Jennifer (2009) World Englishes: a resource book for students, 2nd edition, London, UK, Routledge, 256pp. (Routledge English Language Introductions)
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2007) English as a Lingua Franca: attitude and identity, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 296pp.
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2006) Current perspectives on teaching World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. TESOL Quarterly, 40, (1), 157-181.
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2006) The spread of EIL: a testing time for testers. ELT Journal, 60, (1), 42-50. (doi:10.1093/elt/cci080)
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2006) Points of view and blind spots: ELF and SLA. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 16, (2), 137-162. (doi:10.1111/j.1473-4192.2006.00111.x)
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2005) Teaching pronunciation for English as a Lingua Franca: a sociopolitical perspective. In, Gnutzmann, Claus and Intemann, Frauke (eds.) The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom. Göttingen, Germany; Tübingen, Germany, Gunter Narr, 145-158.
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2002) A sociolinguistically based, empirically researched pronunciation syllabus for English as an international language. Applied Linguistics, 23, (1), 83-103. (doi:10.1093/applin/23.1.83)
	Jenkins, Jennifer (2000) The phonology of English as an international language: new models, new norms, new goals , Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 266pp. (Oxford Applied Linguistics)

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