English is closely tied to processes of globalization: a language of threat, desire, destruction and opportunity. […] English is a translocal language, a language of fluidity and fixity that moves across, while becoming embedded in, the materiality of localities and social relations. English is bound up with transcultural flows, a language of imagined communities and refashioning identities. (Pennycook, 2007: 5–6)Alastair Pennycook’s words speak directly to many of the concerns of the papers...