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Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a Tamil-born Sri Lankan linguist and currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2007. His research covers World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He has published works on translingualism, translanguaging,[1] linguistic imperialism,[2] and social and political issues in language education.[3]

Suresh Canagarajah
Known for	Work on translanguaging and linguistic imperialism
Academic background
Education	University of Kelaniya (BA) Bowling Green State University (MA) University of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Thesis	Negotiating competing discourses and identities: A sociolinguistic analysis of challenges in academic writing for minority students (1990)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	English as a second or foreign language
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University Baruch College

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