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  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (27 July 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0194421643
  • ISBN-13: 978-0194421645
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to all teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It proposes a basic core of phonological teaching, with controversial suggestions for what should be included.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a reader from leeds, 12 Aug 2002
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Fascinating and utterly convincing: a truly seminal publication
This is to my mind one of the most important books on the teaching of English pronunciation to second language learners to emerge for several years. It is bound to prove controversial, attacking as it does, many of the comfortable assumptions of those who adhere rigidly to standard language ideologies. In addition, Jenkins' enterprise is both vast and the first of its kind. This means that although her principle (a pronunciation core based on phonological intelligibility in interaction between non-native speakers) is in itself an excellent one, her findings - as she herself points out - cannot be considered definitive until further work has been carried out in the field. In the meantime, anyone with a sound understanding of sociolinguistic research methods will find Jenkins' methodology and reporting of her data fascinating and utterly convincing. This reader for one hopes that the book will be read widely and will encourage others to take up the EIL challenge. A truly seminal publication.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great, fast service!, 18 Dec 2009
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5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal Work, 28 Feb 2009
The people leaving reviews with big words and one star are completely naive about the field. This was one of THE seminal works which began a reconceptualisation of international English and THE work which inspired many corpus studies, a few of which have now surpassed a million words. After all the work since, very few of Jenkin's findings have been modified, let alone disproved (somewhat disparaging for those reviews criticising this for having no evidence)! Despite the title, it was this book that may have done more than any other deconstruct the monolithic construct of what "English" means in "English as an International Language" (which the autor has long since broken away from for that reason). So how can there be a 2 star review here saying we need to "accept plurality" - what on earth do you think this book (and the wealth of research that follows it) does? Did you prefer the concept of standard English being exported with a deficit perception of all that deviates?

As for "evidence shows that languages diverge, therefore this book is rubbish" review - all I can say is read more in the field - consider the contexts of INTERNATIONAL use, INTERNATIONAL cultures and globalisation and you might lose your monolithic concept of languages only marking difference. Accommodation theory would bring your argument into question. This is one of Jenkin's main arguments (perhaps the reviewer missed it) suggesting that when languages are actually being USED cooperatively, it is very rare to witness divergence among interlocutors!

Jenkins has developed her ideas further since this book, but this remains one of the foundations upon which English as a lingua franca and interactional linguistics is based - and the most important work of phonology for ELT that I've read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not that radical
First, the book is epistemelogically naive as to its presentation and interpretation of what is being passed off here as 'empirical' research. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2003 by C. Jannuzi

2.0 out of 5 stars Attractive ideas, shame about the evidence
This book makes it all sound so simple. We develop a new form of English that is intermediate between the forms that Native Speakers use and the many varieties used by Non-Native... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars The Phonology of English as an International Language
The Phonology of English as an International Language is a timely and important addition to pronunciation teaching. Read more
Published on 19 July 2002 by Robin Walker

5.0 out of 5 stars Academically stimulating, pedagogically useful
Dr. Jenkins adds to the Standard English and Core English debate with this very useful study of the pronunciation of English as international lingua franca. Read more
Published on 22 April 2002 by proberts75

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable and insightful
This is an indispensable and insightful book that uses groundbreaking research to address how the changing roles of English in the world affect language teachers' decisions to... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Free the world from a linguistic Empire, accept plurality.
Here is a linguistic Greenpeace!
The statement's clear; free the world from a linguistic Empire - accept plurality. Read more
Published on 4 April 2002 by k.schwartz@ucl.ac.uk

1.0 out of 5 stars Makes excessive claims on the basis of limited data
The book is based on the premise that language varieties converge, whereas all the historical evidence is that they diverge. Read more
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