Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a

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-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an

Edwin Erle Sparks Edwin Erle Sparks (July 16, 1860 – June 15, 1924) was the eighth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1908 until 1920. Biography Sparks was born in Newark, Ohio, on July 16, 1860. After high school, he attended Oh ...

Professor of

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, and

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, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2007. His research covers

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and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He has published works on

translingualism Translingual phenomena are words and other aspects of language that are relevant in more than one language. Thus "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "having the same meaning in many languages"; and sometimes "containing wo ...

translanguaging Translanguaging is a term that can refer to different aspects of multilingualism. It can describe the way bilinguals and multilinguals use their linguistic resources to make sense of and interact with the world around them. It can also refer to a ...

linguistic imperialism Linguistic imperialism or language imperialism is occasionally defined as "the transfer of a dominant language to other people". Such language "transfer" (or rather unilateral imposition) comes about because of imperialism. The transfer is cons ...

, and social and political issues in language education, including codemeshing and language "shuttling." 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'' * American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Inaugural Best Book Award for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2014 Book Prize for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * Modern Language Association of America 2012-2013 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for ''Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations'' * Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2007 Richard Braddock Award for “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued" * Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for ''Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching''

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