Suresh Canagarajah

Suresh Canagarajah
Suresh Canagarajah
Known for	Work on translanguaging and linguistic imperialism
Academic background
Education	University of Kelaniya (BA); Bowling Green State University (MA); University of Texas at Austin (PhD);
Thesis	Negotiating competing discourses and identities: A sociolinguistic analysis of challenges in academic writing for minority students (1990)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	English as a second or foreign language
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University; Baruch College;

Suresh Canagarajah is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2007. His research treats World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He is known for work on translanguaging,^[1] linguistic imperialism,^[2] and social and political issues in language education.^[3]

References

↑ Overstreet, Matthew (June 2, 2016). "The Global Inevitable: A Review of Canagarajah's Translingual Practice". Enculturation. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
↑ Bhatt, Rakesh (2002). "Review of Suresh Canagarajah: Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching". Language in Society. 31: 631–635. doi:10.1017/S0047404502274059.
↑ Campbell, Lee (2003). "Review: 'A Geopolitics of Academic Writing'". Journal of Ancient Civilizations. 23 (2): 455–459. Retrieved September 20, 2018.

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