ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to review current trends in World Englishes (WE) research and publications. It does so through by first presenting an overview of current research in the field of world Englishes. It then proceeds to look at the singular contribution of Professor Braj B. Kachru, followed by a discussion of recent challenges to the WE enterprise, before moving to a discussion of future directions for world Englishes. In the later sections of the chapter, there is a discussion of the importance of sociolinguistic theory for world Englishes, as well as suggestions concerning the ongoing relevance of WE perspectives to applied linguistics and language pedagogy.
