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Bianchi, Robert Michael – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The term "glocal" has been used to describe phenomena that simultaneously blend both global and local elements (see Featherstone, Lash, & Robertson, 1995, p. 101). Nowhere is this more evident than in the existence of 3arabizi, itself a blended language composed of English and Vernacular Arabic, written in Latin letters but using…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Nava, Andrea; Pedrazzini, Luciana – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
We describe an exploratory study carried out within the University of Milan, Department of English the aim of which was to analyse features of the spoken English of first-year Modern Languages undergraduates. We compiled a learner corpus, the "Role Play" corpus, which consisted of 69 role-play interactions in English carried out by…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction