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Teaching the English that makes one happy

English teaching could be far more effective if targeted at specific niches of ‘integration’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2016

Jan Blommaert
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Integration is usually seen as one process, and language proficiency is often defined as the key to it. In this brief essay, I argue that integration consists of multiple very different processes of a highly specific nature, requiring highly specific register-genre competences. The endpoint of integration, and the usefulness of language therein, consists of happiness: a range of experience of adequacy and satisfaction in highly diverse social milieux.

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 11 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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