- Kim Ballard, The Frameworks of English: Introducing Language Structures, 4th Edition, London, Bloomsbury, 2022, ISBN 9781352013078: Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
- Cecil L. Nelson, Zoya G. Proshina, and Daniel R. Davis (eds), The Handbook of World Englishes, 2nd Edition, Hoboken, NJ and Chichester, Wiley Blackwell, 2020, ISBN 9781119164210: Ch. 3 (English in the United States), 4 (English in Canada)
- Simon Horobin, How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 9780198754275: Ch. 5, 6
The reading list is the same for both attending and non-attending students. Non-attending students are invited to contact the lecturer prior to sitting for the exam