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The Impact of Linguistic Racism and Coloniality on Sri Lankan English Studies: The Case of Burgher English

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Agra Rajapakse – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024

This paper argues that descriptions of Sri Lankan English (SLE) are influenced by ideologies of linguistic racism and coloniality through an examination of the possible reasons for their neglect of Burgher English -- an underprivileged variety of SLE spoken by a minority community. Although descriptions of SLE identify different categories of the…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes

Applying "Given-before-New" Principle in L2 English Datives Development

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Xiaoyu Zhang; Sang-Gu Kang – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025

Dative alternation between prepositional and double object datives has been a popular topic in second language (L2) acquisition, but only few studies deal with discourse constraints such as the "given-before-new" principle, or given-new (GN) ordering, which describes the tendency to place given information before new information. The…

Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction