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Nothing Stands Still for Long Changing English: Past, Present – and Future?

Nothing Stands Still for Long Changing English: Past, Present – and Future?. Rob Dean Macedonia, 2011. Agenda. Things people say… Types of change Source of change Examples galore Teaching Implications What of the future?. Things people say:.

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Nothing Stands Still for Long Changing English: Past, Present – and Future?

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  1. Nothing Stands Still for LongChanging English: Past, Present – and Future? Rob Dean Macedonia, 2011

  2. Agenda • Things people say… • Types of change • Source of change • Examples galore • Teaching Implications • What of the future?

  3. Things people say: • There are less people here today than there were yesterday. • Due to bad weather, the event was cancelled. • And, later on, we’ll have some coffee. • I’d like to quickly tell you something. • You’ll get a free gift if you order today. • None of you are going to enjoy this. • Me and my mum always go shopping on Saturday. • It rained all day, so we had to put the party off.

  4. Prescription or Description? 

  5. L’Académie Française Le parking Le pressing Le marketing Le weekend Le footing Fighting the Change…

  6. Change is nothing new

  7. Words from Different Sources Old English book help French volume aid Latin text assistance

  8. What’s changing? • Vocabulary / lexis • Grammar • Functional Language • Pronunciation

  9. What’s causing the changes? Media – Television, films, journalism Technology & Lifestyle changes Political correctness ‘Foreign’ words entering the language

  10. panini fajita vindaloo oligarch passé barrista “New” Borrowed Words- Which language? Italian Greek Spanish French Indian Italian New products from abroad Easier / Shorter names for existing things

  11. The Influence of the Media: The ‘Friends’ Phenomenon “I am so not gonna do that”

  12. The ‘Little Britain’ Phenomenon "be like"

  13. “Vicky’slike standing at the bus stop and I’m like, “What are you doing here?” “Vicky was standing at the bus stop and I said to her “What are you doing here?” Usage: Informal version of past continuous Usage: Informal; to introduce direct speech, often of a surprising or interesting nature.

  14. Changing Pronunciation

  15. Queen’s English

  16. Pronunciation… on the move

  17. The ‘Neighbours’ Effect

  18. The ‘Neighbours’ Effect It’s great to be here. I enjoy visiting Macedonia I’ve been here before.

  19. Australian Intonation (Rising Terminus) American Shortening Going to Want to Sort of Gonna Wanna Sorta

  20. The Influence of New Technology

  21. SMS Acronyms LOL BBL EOD LMK FYA POS Laugh out Loud Be back later End of discussion Let me know For your amusement Parent over shoulder

  22. New words for a new technological age

  23. What’s Missing? • age • native digital • book • business • cash • commerce e- • crime • fraud • kidnapper cyber

  24. e-words Business Non-Business e-business e-cash e-commerce e-money e-publishing e-tailer e-ticket e-book e-zine e-signature

  25. ‘cyber’ words negative neutral cybercrime cyberfraud cyberkidnapper cyberporn cybersickness cyberterrorism cyberwidow cybercafe cyberland cyberforensics

  26. Changing Lifestyles

  27. Words and expressions for the New Decade Noughties the sandwich generation kidults the green pound fake bake a mouse potato a slackademic a walking bus hottie

  28. Some fashionable commonly used words and expressions that annoy… We have pan fried chicken and oven baked fish I’m lovin’ it At this moment in time, the meeting is still in progress Please enter your PIN number. Passengers are kindly requested to proceed to gate 15. Would you like cheese or ham? - Whatever! Here’s your meal. Enjoy!

  29. The Age of Political Correctness air stewardess actress blind fat short cheating flight attendant actor non-sighted person of substance vertically challenged collaborative learning

  30. Implications for Teaching…

  31. Modern Teaching Materials?

  32. Modern Teaching Materials?

  33. Implications for Teaching… 1) Reception vs. Production • Exposure to REAL language: • Authentic texts • DVD • You Tube • Songs…

  34. Implications for Teaching… 1) Reception vs. Production 2) Fluency vs. Accuracy (exams?) 3) Spoken vs. Written Play it safe!

  35. Lynne Truss Talk to the Hand David Crystal The Fight for English Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots and Leaves Bill Bryson Mother Tongue

  36. And what of the future? What changes would you like to see? If I was minister for English...

  37. Bye Bye to: • ‘s’ in 3rd person singular • irregular verbs • Less frequently used tenses • articles • used to and past ‘would’

  38. …and on top of that: • simplification of question tags • ‘will’/’would’ used in if-clauses • time/tense agreement • simplification of prefixes –‘un’ for everything negative

  39. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!!!

  40. Thank You! robert.dean@pearson.com

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