Education: PhD in Linguistics
Affiliation: Purdue University, USA
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Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
Phone: +1-765-494-3774
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Email: berns@purdue.edu
Margie Berns is Professor Emerita of English at Purdue University (Indiana, USA). Her research focus throughout her career was the sociolinguistics of English worldwide and the pedagogical implications of English for global communication. Areas of emphasis include the “Chinese-ness” of the English fiction of Ha Jin; the notions of “lingua franca” and “Lingua Franca English”; the role of English in the media lives of European youth. She served as an editor of the Encyclopedia of the English Linguistics (Elsevier) and of the Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Elsevier) as well as the journal World Englishes. Publications include Contexts of Competence: Social and Cultural Considerations in Communicative Language Teaching (Plenum Press) as well as articles and book reviews for various collections and journals. She taught and lectured internationally in Brazil, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Mexico, Russia and elsewhere. Other service to the profession was as President of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) and of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL).
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