Multilingual Matters English a Changing Medium for Education (New Perspectives on Language and Education): 26

In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto largely referenced to metropolitan native-speaker norms, has to be expanded to take account of diverse contexts of use for a variety of purposes, and that the popular belief that language and literacy should simply be regarded as a technical 'skill' which confers universal benefits should be replaced with a social practice view that recognises situated variations and diversity. The volume, we believe, provides a reference point for extended research and practice in these areas that we believe will be of interest to a wide range of people engaged in language and literacy education.