# Acknowledgements

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Figure 2 Children interacting: a sociocultural linguistic approach to language and learning: © SAMUEL ASHFIELD / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Figure 3 Colour PET scan of language areas of the brain: a cognitive approach to language and learning: © WELLCOME DEPT. OF COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Figure 4 Noam Chomsky: Photo by Al Dunlop / Toronto Star via Getty Images

Figure 5 Dell Hymes: Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association

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Figure 7 Lev Vygotsky: Taken from Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists.org

Figure 9 Braj Kachru’s three-circle model of English speakers: Kachru, B.B. (1992 [1982]) ‘Teaching world Englishes’ in Kachru, B.B. (ed.) The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures, Urbana, University of Illinois Press

Figure 10 Suresh Canagarajah: Photo supplied by Suresh Canagarajah

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