Re: Who is an ESL writer?

Subject: Re: Who is an ESL writer?
From: Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Reshma <reshma_pendse -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- in>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:47:32 -0400

Perhaps a bit tangential to your question, this might be of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Englishes

Note in particular Kachru's Three Circles of English.

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Reshma <reshma_pendse -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- in> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> There have been a couple of posts on LinkedIn and a few recent articles about the challenges of managing offshore teams and ESL writers. I've posted the filleting question in a LInkedIn group and am posting it here for the consideration of this group:
>
> How do you define an ESL writer? Is it simply someone who does not live in a native-English speaking country? How about someone whose mother tongue is not English but whose medium of instruction at school was English?
>
> Sorry for the cross post, but I'd really appreciate opinions from this group.
>
> Regards,
> Reshma
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RE: Purpose of Tech Comms today: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
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