This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the methodological tools that have to date been implemented within World Englishes (WE) research. It explores various methodological tools, demonstrating how such approaches have been used to address a wide range of empirical topics common to WE research.

List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword: researching World Englishes (Kingsley Bolton); Introduction (Peter I. De Costa); 1. World Englishes, ELF, and EIL (Dustin Crowther and Jeffrey Maloney) PART I Methods of empirical inquiry; 2. Corpus approaches to World Englishes: a bird's-eye view (Sandra C. Deshors and Tobias Bernaisch); 3. Ethnography: connecting the local and the global (Jeffrey Maloney and Matt Kessler); 4. The use of surveys and questionnaires in World Englishes research (Ying-Ying Tan); PART II Usage of methodological tools in empirical research; 5. Applying corpus methods to explore World Englishes: a practical perspective (Tobias Bernaisch and Sandra C. Deshors); 6. The use of ethnography in World Englishes (Matt Kessler and Jeffrey Maloney); 7. On attitudes, intelligibility, and perception: cases of studies in World Englishes using surveys and questionnaires (Ying-Ying Tan); PART III World Englishes in the classroom; 8. Addressing pedagogical inquiry in World Englishes (Dustin Crowther); Afterword: World Englishes, methodology, and points of view (Daniel R. Davis); Index