Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of

Applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, and

Asian studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2007. His research covers

World Englishes World Englishes is a term for emerging localised or indigenised varieties of English, especially varieties that have developed in territories influenced by the United Kingdom or the United States. The study of World Englishes consists of identi ...

and

teaching English to speakers of other languages English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL ...

. He has published works on

translingualism Translingual phenomena are words and other aspects of language that are relevant in more than one language. Thus "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "having the same meaning in many languages"; and sometimes "containing word ...

translanguaging Translanguaging can refer to a pedagogical process of utilizing more than one language within a classroom lesson or it can be used to describe the way bilinguals use their linguistic resources to make sense of and interact with the world around th ...

linguistic imperialism Linguistic imperialism or language imperialism is occasionally defined as "the transfer of a dominant language to other people". This language "transfer" (or rather unilateral imposition) comes about because of imperialism. The transfer is consid ...

, and social and political issues in language education. His book, ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations,'' has won three nationally recognized best book awards.

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.

Notable awards

* American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020 Best Book Award for ''Routledge Handbook for Migration and Language'' * American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Inaugural Best Book Award for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2014 Book Prize for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * Modern Language Association of America 2012-2013 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2007 Richard Braddock Award for “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued" * Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for ''Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching''

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