Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Modal auxiliaries in second language varieties of English; English in Cyprus; From EFL to ESL; Formulaic sequences in spoken ENL, ESL and EFL; Studying structural innovations in New English varieties; Interrogative inversion as a learner phenomenon in English contact varieties; Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes -- fact or fiction?*; Typological profiling
A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African EnglishesDiscussion forum; Bionotes; Index
Summary
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. T
