In this World Englishes seminar, professionals from different teaching contexts came together. They teach English in different contexts worldwide.
For the first day, going through the seminal works that set the foundations of World Englishes (henceforth, WEs) paradigm already gives an overview of the dynamic aspect of the English language and of its spread due to colonial reasons, migration flows, and globalization.
M.A.K. Halliday's "Symposium on World Englishes: Written language, standard language, global language" offers a descriptive account of the development of the English language into a global. At a given time in history, English itself needed the presence of other languages as such as Latin and French to fulfill specific functions in certain domains.
Parallel aspects of this can be found in McArthur's(2001) World English and World Englishes: Trends, tensions, varieties, and standards. McArthur covers the historical aspect of the development of the English language.
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