World Englishes and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Abstract

Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and World Englishes (WE) have both established themselves as important areas of inquiry within applied linguistics, with their own professional organizations (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and International Association for World Englishes [IAWE]), annual conferences, and affiliated journals fully dedicated to the scholarship in their disciplines ( TESOL Quarterly and World Englishes , respectively). The articulation between the two fields, however, began only in the last decade or so, except for the work of a few individuals, such as Braj Bihari Kachru and S. N. Sridhar, who spanned the two areas. This entry traces the history of the (inter)disciplinary relationship between the two fields as shown in the scholarly publications that attempted to bring them together.