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Hanna Kosonen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Linguistic diversity is growing in Higher Education, driven by factors like internationalization and digitalization. This trend necessitates a reevaluation of language practices within academic communities. Language Centres play a crucial role in modelling effective practices and reshaping these practices to address the multilingual needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huda, Miftahul; Irham, Irham – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Soon after Kachru (1992) promoted the notion of the World of English(es) through his 'inner-outer-expanding circle' principle, academic audiences started to recognize that the number of English nonnative speakers had noticeably surpassed that of native speakers. Such a phenomenon has encouraged English learners of diverse lingua-cultural…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Jafari, Rasoul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Language Minorities
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Dai, David Wei; Roever, Carsten – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Because English is widely used as a lingua franca, language testers have started to consider the introduction of non-native accents into English listening tests. This study investigates how accents influence test-takers' performance, and also elicits test-takers' subjective perception of accents. Eighty adolescent L1-Mandarin test takers were…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Gilmetdinova, Alsu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to shed light on potential driving forces that guide principals' decisions on how to implement language policies in their schools in Kazan, Russia. Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan and home for the second biggest ethnic group in Russia, called Tatars, whose native language proficiency is gradually declining. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Literacy, Second Language Learning
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Mahili, Ifigenia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
Today's corporate world is in a state of flux. The globalisation of business activity and the escalating economic crises force even small/medium enterprises to become international. This impacts on the competitiveness, profitability and survival of organisations, and as a result the companies' recruitment strategies and language policies,…
Descriptors: Greek, Global Approach, Business Communication, Language Usage
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Cebron, Neva – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents the core aims and objectives of the teaching materials developed within the IEREST (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers) project, and shows how the innovative approach adopted for these activities can be implemented in the classroom. The IEREST teaching modules are innovative in that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication