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Leonard Tan – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2025
As the philosophy of music education further internationalizes with Asian philosophies in recent years, the problem of language is a crucial issue that can no longer be ignored. When mining ideas originally written in non-English languages, is it possible to truly know what was said or written? Is knowledge of the original language necessary? When…
Descriptors: International Education, Music Education, Educational Philosophy, Asian Culture
Lazarus, Alan S. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2021
Culture and language play important roles in counting techniques, affecting how students learn math around the globe.
Descriptors: Numeracy, Language Role, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Salih, Abdelrahman Abdalla – English Language Teaching, 2021
In recent years, the rapid growth and unprecedented dominance of the English language has transformed the world's linguistic ecology and promoted anxiety and debates about its future. The language has developed into a leading international lingua franca used by millions of speakers in different linguistic and cultural contexts worldwide. This…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
MacKenzie, Alison; Engman, Mel; McGurk, Orla – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
We discuss how the colonisation of the island of Ireland has marginalised and delegitimised Gaeilge, the Irish language, and the relationship of this colonial genealogy in place to local educational institutions and the practices therein. The hegemonic and homogenising processes of British colonialism continue to reverberate in modern discourses…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Irish, Political Attitudes
Williams, Kevin – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
The focus of the article is on the different strands that shaped Seamus Heaney's sensibility. The first section examines the role played by the home and local community and the second explores the contribution of school and university. One of the most significant sources of his upbringing was the experience of living in a divided society. His…
Descriptors: Poetry, Foreign Countries, Family Influence, Community Influence
Baker, David – ELT Journal, 2015
"Changing English" is a new feature in "ELT Journal" which aims to illustrate the diversity of English in the world today and to ask whether, and how, ELT practitioners might accommodate such variation. Focusing on a particular language issue in each article, the series will explore how English varies between places and spaces,…
Descriptors: English, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Role
Aspinall, Robert W. – Higher Education Forum, 2018
Japan and Great Britain are both island nations with long histories. Nationalists in both nations like to emphasise the things that separate members of 'our' nation from others across the sea, and this includes language. In the British case the arrogant assumption that 'everyone else can learn English' has led to a serious decline in the number of…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
del Rosario Zavala, Maria – Issues in Teacher Education, 2017
Effectively engaging students in mathematics discourse is challenging, especially in a language other than the one in which you learned mathematics. Teachers must manage the academic as well as social function of language. In Spanish-English bilingual classrooms in the U.S., changing the language of instruction to Spanish may not be enough to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Language Attitudes, Language Role
Dougherty, Peter J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
The modern world's understanding of American university press has long been shaped by university-press books. American university-press books are good international advertisements for the universities whose logos grace their spines. The growth of transnational scholarship and the expansion of digital communications networks are converging in ways…
Descriptors: Faculty Publishing, University Presses, Universities, Advertising
Boberg, Charles – World Englishes, 2012
The variety of English spoken by about half a million people in the Canadian province of Quebec is a minority language in intensive contact with French, the local majority language. This unusual contact situation has produced a unique variety of English which displays many instances of French influence that distinguish it from other types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Role, French
Standish, Paul – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2011
This paper considers the contemporary prominence of the concept of social justice and identifies two influential strands of thought that currently affect thinking about education: John Rawls' notion of justice as fairness and a more emancipatory conception typified by critical pedagogy. With this prominence the term has gathered a rhetorical force…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, English, Language Role
Wilton, Antje; Wochele, Holger – AILA Review, 2011
In this paper, we focus on comments on language issues from a historical perspective. The concept of the layperson (non-linguist) is discussed to identify laypeople and lay comments in history when the modern concept of a linguist did not yet exist. Two studies show how the historical perspective complements modern research on folk linguistics.…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Language Attitudes
Duff, Andrea; Miller, Julia; Johnston, Helen; Bergmann, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Design, 2012
The Grammar Gang blog has now passed its fourth anniversary as a borderless, non-proprietary language and learning online classroom. It gives wing to the aspirations of academic staff from four universities to explore language and learning across hemispheres. The Blog's recent birthday provides a timely opportunity to explore how this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Global Approach
Riddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
Crossey, Mark – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
In this article, I discuss the work of the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project: why the British Council is undertaking this work, why is it being sponsored, what exactly is being done and what are the key issues in English for peacekeeping and other security forces.
Descriptors: National Security, English, Language Role, Peace