Announcement
Election
Announcement concerning IAWE officers
For the upcoming IAWE 26 conference in Giessen, Germany, the following members of IAWE are nominated as office holders for the Association.
Nominee as President Elect: Professor Bertus van Rooy
Bertus van Rooy is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands since 2020, and is also Chair of the department Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures at the moment. Previously, he taught English and Afrikaans for 21 years at the North-West University in South Africa, and retains an appointment as extra-ordinary professor with the North-West University. He was the organiser of the 8th IAWE conference in Potchefstroom, South Africa, 2001 and was board member of the IAWE board from 2005-2010, including a term as President of IAWE in 2007-2008. His primary interest is world Englishes – the shape, use and users of English across the world, with particular attention to the contact between English and other languages. Much of his work draws on data from South African and Outer Circle of English, but his interest is increasingly drawn to understand what insight there is in examining the Expanding Circle in comparison to the Outer Circle. He investigates phenomena like linguistic innovation and grammatical changes in the complex contact situations where English is used, together with societal attitudes towards languages and language use. He is the author of World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language (2024), one of the editors of African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education (2023) and Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Settings (2024), as well as a co-editor of and contributing author to the Blackwell Handbook of World Englishes (2025) and the Syntax of Afrikaans on taalportaal.org (2020).
Other nominations:
Tej Bhatia, Syracuse University: Appointment as Board Member
Eyamba Bokamba, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Renewal as Board Member
S. N. Sridhar, Stony Brook University: Appointment as Board Member
Kamal Sridhar, Stony Brook University: Renewal as Board Member
The 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes
The 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes will be held at Justus Liebig University Giessen between 25 - 27 July, 2025.
Braj B. Kachru Student Award
2023 Braj B. Kachru Student Award for best presentation
The International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) is pleased to present the Braj B. Kachru Student Award, for the best paper from a student at the IAWE conference.
The award is named in honor of Professor Braj B. Kachru, whose influential scholarship helped establish the field of world Englishes, in recognition of his exceptional commitment to student scholarship throughout his career.
This award carries a US $1000.00 prize.
A committee composed of IAWE officers have selected the best paper and presentation from a strong field of entries. We are pleased to announce the winning paper:
Prateek Shankar (Rhode Island School of Design), for his talk on:
“Citizens of the English Language: Sociolinguistic perspectives on postcolonial India”
Past Recipients of the Braj B. Kachru Award:
2019
Katy Highet
Institute of Education, University College London
“Socioeconomic factors and their impact on perceptions of English in India"
2018
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
National University fo Singapore
“The Chinese Filipinos and English: Evidence of differentiation within Philippine English”
2017
Xie Wenhan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“A Force to Reckoned With: Grandparents and English in Singapore”
2015
Helene Steigertahl
University of Bayreuth, Germany
“Spoken English in Namibia – Preliminary Findings of a New Variety?”
2014
Stephanie Horch
University of Freiburg, Germany
"Conversion in Asian Englishes: Substratum versus institutionalization"
2013
Danae Maria Perez Inofuentes
University of Zurich, Switzerland
"The Fate of English in Paraguay"
2012
Ronel Wasserman (nee Rossouw)
North-West University, South Africe
"You must try, my dear Sarie, to have faith in men." Afrikaans influence on South African English must since the 19th century.
The International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) is pleased to present the Braj B. Kachru Student Award, for the best paper from a student at the IAWE conference.
The award is named in honor of Professor Braj B. Kachru, whose influential scholarship helped establish the field of world Englishes, in recognition of his exceptional commitment to student scholarship throughout his career.
This award carries a US $1000.00 prize.
A committee composed of IAWE officers have selected the best paper and presentation from a strong field of entries. We are pleased to announce the winning paper:
Prateek Shankar (Rhode Island School of Design), for his talk on:
“Citizens of the English Language: Sociolinguistic perspectives on postcolonial India”
Past Recipients of the Braj B. Kachru Award:
2019
Katy Highet
Institute of Education, University College London
“Socioeconomic factors and their impact on perceptions of English in India"
2018
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
National University fo Singapore
“The Chinese Filipinos and English: Evidence of differentiation within Philippine English”
2017
Xie Wenhan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“A Force to Reckoned With: Grandparents and English in Singapore”
2015
Helene Steigertahl
University of Bayreuth, Germany
“Spoken English in Namibia – Preliminary Findings of a New Variety?”
2014
Stephanie Horch
University of Freiburg, Germany
"Conversion in Asian Englishes: Substratum versus institutionalization"
2013
Danae Maria Perez Inofuentes
University of Zurich, Switzerland
"The Fate of English in Paraguay"
2012
Ronel Wasserman (nee Rossouw)
North-West University, South Africe
"You must try, my dear Sarie, to have faith in men." Afrikaans influence on South African English must since the 19th century.
Larry E. Smith Scholarship
The East-West Center in Honolulu has announced the establishment of a scholarship in memory of Larry E. Smith. The scholarship will provide awards for Degree Fellows and Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellows at the East-West Center with an interest in World Englishes, language learning and culture, linguistics and related fields. Please click here if you are interested in contributing.
Past Conferences
26th Conference, Giessen University, Germany
25th Conference, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
24th Conference, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
23rd Conference, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
22nd Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Larry E. Smith
21st Conference, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
20th Conference, Amity University, Noida, NCR Delhi, India
19th Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
18th Conference, City University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
17th Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
16th Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
15th Conference, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Cebu, Philippines
14th Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13th Conference, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany
12th Conference, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan
11th Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
10th Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
9th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
8th Conference, University of Potchefstroom, South Africa
7th Conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
6th Conference, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
5th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
4th Conference, National University of Singapore
3rd Conference, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2nd Conference, International Center, Nagoya, Japan
1st Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
25th Conference, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
24th Conference, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
23rd Conference, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
22nd Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Larry E. Smith
21st Conference, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
20th Conference, Amity University, Noida, NCR Delhi, India
19th Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
18th Conference, City University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
17th Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
16th Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
15th Conference, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Cebu, Philippines
14th Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13th Conference, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany
12th Conference, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan
11th Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
10th Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
9th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
8th Conference, University of Potchefstroom, South Africa
7th Conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
6th Conference, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
5th Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
4th Conference, National University of Singapore
3rd Conference, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2nd Conference, International Center, Nagoya, Japan
1st Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign