Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

I am primarily interested in all issues related to English as a transnational and deanglicized language. I am also interested in the applicability of Systemic Functional Linguistics and of Multimodality for (critical) textual analysis. Before coming to Portsmouth I taught at Assumption University in Bangkok and, while a PhD student, at the University of Nottingham.

Research CV

Books

• 2010 The Relocation of English: Shifting Paradigms in a Global Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2006 English In The World: Global Rules, Global Roles (co-edited with Rani Rubdy). Continuum International Publishing Group.
• 2003 The Language of Comics. London: Routledge

 Book Chapters

• 2005 Reading Comics as Recreation. In Mukundan, J. (ed.) Readings on ELT Materials, Kuala Lumpur: UPM Press.
• 2003 Literature in the EFL Classroom: roses or thorns? A Thai experience. In Subramaniam, G. (ed.) Teaching of Literature in ESL / EFL Contexts. Petaling Jaya: Sasbadi.
• 2001 Relatedness: on the verbo-visual cohesion in comics. In Baetens, J. (ed.) The Graphic Novel, Leuven: Leuven University Press.
• 2001 Seeing beyond language: when words are not alone, in McRae, J. (ed.) Reading Beyond Text: Processes and Skills, Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla.

Journal Articles

• 2011 Reflections on the Rhetorics on the (Re-)Location of English, Changing English, 18:3, 277-285, ISSN 1358-684X
• 2009 Relocating English: towards a new paradigm for English in the world. Language and Intercultural Communication, 9(3), 175-186.
• 2008 English as a lingua franca: between form and function. English Today, 24(2), 20-26.
• 2008 Comment 7. World Englishes, 27(2), 280-1.
• 2008 Meaningful form: transitivity and intentionality. ELT Journal, 62(2), 164-172.
• 2003 The strange case of Dr Blair and Mr Bush: Counting their words to solve a mystery. English Today, 19(3), 3-13.

Conference Papers

• "The Relocation of Higher Education and the English Language", INTHIED, Guang Zhou, 3-5 June 2010.
• "Malaysian anxieties: bahasa rojak, ‘declining standards’ and the relocation of English", MELTA, Kuching, 17-18 June 2010.
• The Relocation of English: A Critical Look at Theory", IAWE, Vancouver, 25-27 July 2010.
• "Rethinking the Sociolinguistics of English in the World", Sociolinguistics Symposium, Southampton, 2-4 September 2010.
• "The Relocation of English", International ELF Conference, Southampton, 6-8 April 2009.
• "eLearning: Buzzword or Resource?", MELTA, Johor Bahru, 11-13 June 2009.
• "What is English?", IATEFL, Aberdeen, 18-22 April 2007.
• "The Gramma of Ideology", Language Ideologies and Media Discourse, Leeds, 3-5 September 2007.
• "De-anglicizing English", International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, Hong Kong, 13 August 2006.
• "Between the Visual and the Verbal", ISTC, Gatwick, 2 October 2006.
• "The Globalisation and Localisation of English", CILT, London, 18 April 2005.
• "Blend and collaboration between words and pictures in comics", BAAL Multimodality SIG, Birmingham, 9 May 2005.
• "Global vs. local paradigms for ELT", IAWE, West Lafayette, IN, 21-23 July 2005.
• "L1 and L2: conflict or alliance?", ThaiTESOL, Khon Kaen, 19-21 January 2004 (with Christine Manara and Kanog-on Rungrojngarmcharoen).
• "Comics: the alien language", MICELT, Melaka (Malaysia), 10-12 May 2004.
• "Global English in the classroom", ThaiTESOL, Bangkok, 23-25 January 2003 (with Henny T. Zacharias and Wei Xiaoxia).
• "The meaning of grammar", MELTA, Subang Jaya (Malaysia), 18-20 May 2003.
• "Doing world englishes in the classroom", GRETA, Granada (Spain), 12-14 September 2003.
• "Learner corpora for language teaching", ThaiTESOL, Chiang Mai, 17-19 January 2002.
• "English as an International Language: from ideology to the classroom", MICELT, Seremban, 7-9 May 2002.
• "EIL, EFL and ELT: towards a de-ideologisation of the debate", PAC4, Taipei, 8-10 November 2002.
• "Reading comprehension as reproduction in verbo-visual transcoding", ThaiTESOL, Bangkok, 18-20 January 2001.
• "Beyond language: when words meet pictures in verbo-visual texts", MICOLLAC, Kuala Lumpur, 17-19 April 2001.
• "Seeing beyond words: ways of reading verbo-visual texts", MELTA, Kuala Lumpur, 20-22 May 2001.
• "Is literacy literally literal?", ThaiTESOL SIG-Literature and Literacy Conference, Bangkok, 17-18 November 2001.
• "Relatedness: Aspects of Textual Connectivity in Comics", The Graphic Novel, Leuven (Belgium), 12-13 May 2000.