E Magazine Article

 World Englishes refers to the variety of English in different communities.



 Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes:

Phase 1: foundation, in which Englishis brought to a territory by a colonising power.

Phase 2: exonormative stabilisation, where ‘exonormative’ means that the variety is outward-looking, in that it

is dependent on the model of English spoken by someone from the colonising power, i.e. the UK or the US, depending on who colonised the region, and is viewed as a second language (L2).

Phase 3: nativisation, in which the variety starts to have native speakers for whom it is no longer an L2.

Phase 4: endonormative stabilisation,where ‘endonormative’ means the variety has developed its own standards which are not based on the original variety of the colonisers.

Phase 5: differentiation, in which varieties form within the new variety, much as

they have in the UK.