ABSTRACT
The ownership debate Earlier in strand 2, you read the views of scholars such as Kachru, who argue that we need a paradigm shi in the teaching and testing of English, to reect the fact that the majority of people who learn and use English today are not native speakers and do not even use it to communicate with them. In the paper that follows, still one of the most widely and frequently quoted papers in the eld, Henry Widdowson argues in the strongest terms that native speakers of English no longer ‘own’ English or have the right to determine how it is, or should be, spoken around the world.
