EIL, ESL, EFL: Global Issues and Local Interests.
EIL, ESL, EFL: Global Issues and Local Interests.
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EIL、ESL、EFL：全球问题和当地利益。
DOI：
10.1111/1467-971x.00054
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发表时间：
1997
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
H. Widdowson
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作者：
H. Widdowson
这篇由Henry G.Widdowson撰写的论文最初于1995年12月在塞内加尔的一次会议上发表。作者将这篇文章提交给WE考虑发表，并附注说，我想提出一些问题供讨论，因此这篇论文具有挑衅性。..。你可能真的想把它视为对世界英语的一种可能的贡献，因为它可能会引起一些它最初设计的反应“(1996年1月29日)。
我们认为，这将是启动我们题为论坛的这一新章节的适当文件。我们希望《我们》的读者会像作者一样觉得这篇文章具有挑衅性，并希望一些人会与我们分享他们的反应，以便在未来的《我们》杂志上发表。
论文中提出的观点很重要，因为Widdowson是该行业最善于表达和最有见识的成员之一。他在这篇论文中提出的观点早些时候已经在各种理论概念化中得到了阐述，并使用了来自西非、南部非洲以及南亚和东南亚的有说服力的经验数据。近50年前，印度的Raja Rao(1938)为他的创造力提供了一种信条，这一信条几乎已经成为经典，并被对英语创造力感兴趣的亚洲、非洲和西方学者广泛引用。现在，在20世纪90年代，来自英语专业大师的声音尤为重要。这一声音确实是一个温和的指标，表明专业领导层对范式转变的认识程度正在缓慢但肯定地上升。
Widdowson教授以教育家、多产的研究人员和学术管理人员的身份代表了这一职业。他活跃在两个极具影响力的核心圈子专业组织中：国际英语作为外语教师协会(IATEFL)和以其他语言为母语的英语教学(TESOL)。编辑们，
This paper by Henry G. Widdowson was originally presented at a conference in Senegal in December 1995. The author submitted it to WE for consideration for publication with a note saying that ‘I wanted to raise a number of questions for discussion, so the paper is provocative. ... You might indeed want to consider it as a possible contribution to World Englishes, where it might provoke some of the reaction it was originally designed to do’ (January 29, 1996).
We believe that this would be an appropriate paper for initiating this new section in WE entitled the Forum. We hope that the readers of WE will find this contribution as provocative as does the author, and that some will share their reactions with us for publication in future issues of WE.
The perspective presented in the paper is important since Widdowson is one of the most articulate and knowledgeable members of the profession. The points he makes in this paper have earlier been articulated within various theoretical conceptualizations, with persuasive empirical data from West Africa, Southern Africa, and from South and Southeast Asia. Almost five decades ago, India’s Raja Rao (1938) provides a credo for his creativity which has become almost classic and has extensively been quoted by Asian, African, and Western scholars interested in creativity in English. And now in the 1990s, the voice from a guru of the ELT profession is particularly significant. This voice is indeed a mild indicator of a slow but sure increase in the degree of awareness of the paradigm shift among the professional leadership.
Professor Widdowson represents the profession as an educator, as a prolific researcher and as an academic administrator. He is active in two professional organizations of the Inner Circle which are extremely influential: The International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Editors,