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Today English is spoken globally across cultural and geographical boundaries. People from different cultural backgrounds speak different varieties of English. As the number of people who use English as a first language (FstL), a second language (SL), or a foreign language (FL) increases, inevitably the number of varieties of English, especially spoken English, increases. The purpose of learning English as an international language is not to blindly imitate native speakers of English (NSE) but to understand and to be understood clearly.
This chapter is a shortened and revised version of an earlier chapter entitled ‘Directionality issues in teaching English with reference to expressions by nonnative speakers of English’ published in the Journal of PAAL 10(1). I would like to thank Prof. Kumiko Murata and Dr Susan Iwamura for their valuable comments on this version.
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Park, KJ. (2009). Characteristics of Korea English as a Glocalized Variety. In: Murata, K., Jenkins, J. (eds) Global Englishes in Asian Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239531_7
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