English seems to be becoming the global language as a result of the massive socio-economic
cultural and technological changes that have been struggled over since the 1950s. For teachers
of English to speakers of other languages and for those involved in the education of such
teachers trying to understand the changes brought by the globalization commodification and
technologization of English language teaching (ELT) is a major challenge in itself. Given the
acceleration in language extinction and knowledge death developing principled responses to
these changes is ridden with significant complications and dangers. Appropriating English
explores challenging possibilities for teachers and teacher educators in the transnational ELT
market providing a basis for informing and mobilizing innovations in the business of teaching
English language and literacy to speakers of other languages. While the demand for English
grows its effects on other peoples their languages and their knowledge are not always
positive. Appropriating English adds to the calls for a paradigmatic innovation in the ELT
industry. Michael Singh Peter Kell and Ambigapathy Pandian offer a new perspective for
reinventing the project of globalizing English that situates it within a framework of risk
analysis and provides workpoints for making use of multivocal hybridized Englishes and new
digital technologies to help sustain the linguistic diversity of humanity.
