Suresh Canagarajah Explained

Known For:	Work on translanguaging and linguistic imperialism
Thesis Title:	Negotiating competing discourses and identities: A sociolinguistic analysis of challenges in academic writing for minority students
Thesis Year:	1990
Discipline:	Linguist
Sub Discipline:	English as a second or foreign language

Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a Tamil-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an 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 covers World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He has published works on translingualism, translanguaging,^[1] linguistic imperialism,^[2] and social and political issues in language education.^[3] His book, Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, has won three nationally recognized best book awards.

Selected publications

• Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. xxii-230.
• Canagarajah, A. (1999). Resisting linguistic imperialism in English language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Notable awards

• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020 Best Book Award for Routledge Handbook for Migration and Language^[4]
• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Inaugural Best Book Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[5]
• British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2014 Book Prize for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[6]
• Modern Language Association of America 2012-2013 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[7]
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2007 Richard Braddock Award for “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued"^[8]
• Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching

External links

• homepage https://sites.psu.edu/canagarajah/

Notes and References

1. Overstreet . Matthew . June 2, 2016 . The Global Inevitable: A Review of Canagarajah's Translingual Practice . Enculturation . September 20, 2018 .
2. Bhatt . Rakesh . 2002 . Review of Suresh Canagarajah: Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching . . 31 . 4 . 631–635 . 10.1017/S0047404502274059 .
3. Campbell . Lee . 2003 . Review: 'A Geopolitics of Academic Writing' . . 23 . 2 . 455–459 . 20866575 .
4. Web site: Book Award - American Association For Applied Linguistics . 2022-11-18 . www.aaal.org.
5. Web site: AAALetter - March 2016 - American Association For Applied Linguistics . 2022-12-02 . www.aaal.org.
6. Web site: Linguistics . British Association for Applied . Book Prize . 2022-12-02 . BAAL . en-GB.
7. Web site: Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winners . 2022-12-02 . Modern Language Association . en.
8. Web site: 2018-06-06 . CCCC Richard Braddock Award . 2022-12-02 . Conference on College Composition and Communication . en-US.