Episode 83 - Sarah Hopkyns and English in the Gulf
About this episode
This episode features an interview with Dr Sarah Hopkyns discussing the linguistic landscape of the Gulf region and the complexities of English and Arabic in that context.
Welcome to episode 83 of Lexis, another student-led episode, which this time features Oli, an A Level student at the Dubai British School interviewing Dr Sarah Hopkyns, with some help from Dan. Sarah is a Lecturer in TESOL and International Education at the University of St Andrews, Lecturer (Teaching) in Intercultural Communication at the Institute of Education, UCL and Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. We talk about: What we mean by ‘The Gulf’ and the Gulf nations What makes them interesting from a linguistic point of view The types of English spoken in the Gulf and whether we can talk about ‘Gulf English’ The role of Arabic in the region Translanguaging, multilingualism and reconceptualising how we think about doing language in the world Translingual practice as a real world manifestation of how people use language resources to communicate Attitudes to English use and English as a threat to local language and identity You can find Sarah’s university page here: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah-hopkyns/ Her ResearchGate profile is here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah-Hopkyns We discuss some of the following…
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