Country Reports
As a global organisation dedicated to the development and promotion of English as an academic discipline, IAUPE is keen to supply its members with information on what goes on in English all over the world. One way of providing this kind of information is by way of the annual country reports submitted by members. These reports only represent the individual writers' own judgments and opinions.
While the contents of country reports will naturally vary a good deal — for one thing, there will be considerable differences between reports from a small non-English-speaking country and, say, the United Kingdom — the writer of a country report is asked to pay attention to the following:
Current scholarly trends; currently debated academic topics and issues; current governmental research policies; significant new appointments and publications over the past year; new publishing ventures (e.g. new journals and series, especially if they offer opportunities for IAUPE members); new electronic resources of relevance to scholars and teachers in English; practices and developments in the teaching of English as an academic subject; any developments in the field of education in general which might be of interest to IAUPE members.
Of course, not all these kinds of information will be relevant to every writer of a country report, and writers have great freedom when it comes to constructing their submissions. However, country-report writers should aim to give their IAUPE colleagues a sense of what is happening to English in their respective countries.
While IAUPE is not in a position to pay for reports, the publication of a report on the Association website obviously constitutes an item in the writer's annual bibliography of published works, besides offering the satisfaction of contributing to an ongoing global conversation about things that matter to all of us.
Would you like to submit an ‘annual report’ for your country? If so, send an e-mail to Ian Kirby.