In this podcast episode, Sara de Sousa talks to Ana Cristina Chiusano about ‘Standard Academic English’ and its links to diversifying and decolonising the curriculum.FURTHER RESOURCES:Ana has suggested the following that might be useful to people who want to know more about the subject.– Interview with Tracey Derwing about ‘intelligibility and comprehensibility in pronunciation teaching’– Jennifer Jenkins introduces English as a ‘lingua franca’.– You might also want find out more about Braj Kachru, who Ana mentioned, and his ‘circles of English’EPISODE INFO:Ana Cristina Chiusano (she/her) holds both an MA in TEFL, 2009, Universidad de Jaén, Spain, and an MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, 2012, Universidad de León, Spain. She is a PhD candidate in Linguistics and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation. She is currently living in Montevideo, Uruguay, and works as a full-time professor and the academic coordinator of the Bilingual Teacher Training Program and the English Department at the Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay and an Adjunct Professor at Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA, where she teaches online courses on Spanish as a foreign language.Podcast recorded using Zencastr.Music by Rayen © Hear more via Spotify or at Instagram.Edited by Chris Lloyd.