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Hendy, Caroline; Bow, Catherine – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Kriol, an English-lexifier contact language, has approximately 20,000 speakers across northern Australia. It is the primary language of the remote Aboriginal community of Ngukurr. Kriol is a contact language, incorporating features of English and traditional Indigenous languages. The language has been perceived both positively and negatively,…
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chinh Duc Nguyen; Anh T. Ton-Nu – Language Awareness, 2024
The teaching of English as an additional language or dialect (EALD) in Australia has been problematised partly due to teachers' limited understanding of learners' linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The gap could be potentially bridged with the integration of intercultural pragmatics (IP). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language)
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Nattapat Suejam; Maneerat Chuaychoowong; Desiree Kawabata – English Australia Journal, 2025
In English Language Teaching (ELT), awareness of multilingualism for learning can aid in developing programs that effectively enhance learners' communication in a linguistically and culturally diverse world. Embracing the linguistic landscape (LL) -- the language visible beyond the classroom that permeates daily living -- can provide students with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sender Dovchin; Min Wang – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Translanguaging has been theoretically argued and empirically proven to have transformative and constructive potential because it provides language users with potential access to and opportunities for rich and equal educational and linguistic resources. However, we remind in this article that many 'spontaneous translanguagers' - language users who…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Teaka Sowaprux; Jirada Wudthayagorn; Thanakorn Jirasevijinda – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Conceptualizing how EMI teachers use language in multilingual university settings remains a challenge. While previous studies have explored the language challenges faced by EMI science teachers, few have operationalized 'classroom routines' for understanding classroom language use. This feasibility study applies Freeman et al.'s (2015)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Graduate Medical Education, Medical Students
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Patria, Aditya Nur – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The present study explores attitudes of non-native speakers of English studying in a reputable university in Melbourne, Australia, towards world Englishes. In particular, the study investigates different attitudes between students enrolled in a university subject, which indirectly promotes the students' acceptance towards them and those who have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, College Students
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Carly Steele; Toni Dobinson; Gerard Winkler – TESOL in Context, 2023
Despite the increasing levels of cultural and linguistic diversity represented in Australian classrooms, many universities do not adequately prepare teachers to teach English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D). Moreover, in neoliberal educational regimes, teaching tends to remain steadfastly focused on monolingual conceptions of literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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M. Obaidul Hamid; Peter Crosthwaite – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Children's writing development is a matter of concern for Australian and other education systems. Factors related to the nature of writing as a literate skill, school writing pedagogy, and diminishing role of writing in a screen-dominant environment may account for this educational concern. What happens in a child's writing when immigrant parents…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Immigrants
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Cheryl Seah; Ha Nguyen – English Australia Journal, 2025
English as an International Language (EIL) holds transformative potential for developing intercultural competencies in Australian higher education. Challenging the 'native-speaker' model, EIL offers students and institutions an opportunity for intercultural learning through engaging with linguistic and cultural difference. This paper reports on a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education
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Heinrichs, Danielle H.; Hager, Gail; McCormack, Brittany A.; Lazaroo, Natalie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article aims to visibilise the opportunities for decolonising standardised language practices for multilingual students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in Australian schools. We suggest that a decolonising approach to language education would value the multilingual, non-standard, and diverse language practices of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Veliz, Leonardo; Veliz-Campos, Mauricio – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Dominant processes of economic and cultural globalization have accelerated the use of English as a medium of instruction and precipitated diverse, yet intersected global student mobility, which have resulted in varied forms and uses of English in academic contexts. The present study reports on the findings of research into the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Chinese, Pronunciation
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Mulder, Jean; Thomas, Caroline – English in Australia, 2021
Although "VCE English Language (EL)" has been offered for twenty years in Victoria, Australia, the subject, and especially students' experience of it, has had little evaluation. Using data from four surveys conducted across seven years with over 1500 Unit 3-4 "EL" students, augmented by VCAA enrolment data, a profile of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Written Language, Oral Language, Foreign Countries
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Válková, Silvie; Öbrink, Markus – European Education, 2022
Students and teachers from different language backgrounds are at risk of becoming victims of conflicting trends and conventions when writing in English. This study compares conventions of English academic writing at several European universities with what is taught in English-speaking countries. Data were collected with questionnaires and by…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Comparative Education
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Chung, Bohyon; Bong, Hyun Kyung Miki – English Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to examine the intelligibility and attitude towards four English varieties to Korean-speaking learners (KSLs) of English, who have been exposed mainly to General American (or Korean-accented English) in their English language learning classrooms throughout the primary and secondary schools. A total of 105 Korean…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Attitudes, Korean, Native Language
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