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Englishes MOOC

Englishes MOOC is a digital art project that takes the form of a Massive Open Online Course or MOOC. Its subject is the variety of Englishes used as a medium of expression, mediation and education in art practices around the globe. Its aim is to emancipate art makers, art audiences, and an as wide as possible public, from having to measure their use of English along native-like standards in the international realm. English as an artistic medium can be shaped and reinvented according to the needs of its users, to develop a richer, more creative, and more inclusive international language. The Englishes Mooc wants to raise historical and theoretical awareness of English usage and to help develop practical skills towards making new varieties emerge.

Subject areas include phonetics and intonation; history of English in relation to link-, creole- and pidgin languages; history of constructed languages; professional languages and jargons.

Englishes MOOC proposes a dissolution of English into "Englishes" depicting the development of the plurality of spoken English that displaces the perceived position of primacy occupied by dominant strains of the language.

Realised in cooperation with the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and with a financial contribution from the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

Past
Founder (person or department)

Sandberg Instituut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Coordinators/Organizers/Curators

Nicoline van Harskamp

Goal

A digital art project that takes the form of a Massive Open Online Course of MOOC, and wants to raise historical and theoretical awareness of English usage and to help develop practical skills towards making new varieties emerge.

Formats

Modules over 6 weeks, online courses

Target Group

art makers, art audiences, & an as wide as possible public

Founding year

2019

Further information

https://www.englishes-mooc.org

Contact

englishes.mooc@gmail.com

Keywords

Englishes, language, inclusive, expression, mediation, education, phonetics, intonation, future pedagogy, eurocentrism, commons

← Englishes MOOC
Week 2: Phonetics
Tue
20 Oct
— 26 Oct 2020

Opens 20 October 2020
Live classroom 26 October 20.00 CET

Phonetics is the study of speech. It deals with production of speech: how you actually make sounds in your mouth. It also deals with the perception of speech: how you hear and perceive what other people say. I’m going to tell you the basic of the International Phonetic Alphabet and help you listen and analyse the sounds in other people’s Englishes.

  1. Phonetics
  2. Consonants
  3. The IPA Consonants Chart
  4. Assignment on Consonants
  5. Secondary Articulation
  6. Vowels
  7. Assignment on Vowels
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