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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

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Keywords

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

← Englishes MOOC
Week 3: Postcolonial Englishes
Tue
27 Oct
— 2 Nov 2020

Opens 27 October 2020
Live classroom 2 November 20.00 CET

Consider the English that we speak here, in this type of room, or inside this Mooc. It’s some kind of Lingua Franca English or Expanding Circle English. But could it also be a jargon? A pidgin? A creole? In this module you will learn more about these concepts, and the process of nativisation.

Three English teachers in training discuss with art students the potential of non-standard English in education, literature and contemporary art.

  1. Pidgins
  2. Creoles
  3. Postcolonial Englishes
  4. Discussion
  5. 'Weird English' in Literature
  6. Make your own English
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