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Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL)

I use this blog for two different projects: my reviews and my materials for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Monday, July 08, 2024

Globish: How English Became the World’s Language by Robert McCrum: Book Review



Links to stuff mentioned: 
* Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Lourdes Ortega: https://youtu.be/jnHnbSrpo9E
* The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson: https://youtu.be/XQb1U1bBBDs
* The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg: https://youtu.be/xBMJ7o8LfHA
* Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson: https://youtu.be/dDNmVwqaafI

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
https://youtu.be/HgneyXvRI04  
and HERE: http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/12/vlog-scripted-book-reviews-i-ramble-on.html
In this case, the old blog post is here:  https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2013/06/globlish-how-english-became-worlds.html

Playlist HERE: 

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