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Litzenberg, Jason – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article considers Intensive English Programs (IEPs) affiliated with higher education institutions of the Global North from the perspective of a decolonial option in which English is viewed as a tool of modernity used for colonization and the maintenance of unequal socioeconomic and power structures. Via nuanced description (Pennycook and…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Applied Linguistics, 2011
As China is increasingly occupying the world's attention, its explosively expanding economical and political clout has also been felt in the applied linguistics domain, with the discussion on China's/Chinese language issues growing by leaps and bounds (e.g. China's English education policies, Chinese language classes in the West). Amid the world's…
Descriptors: Language Role, Applied Linguistics, Ideology, Foreign Countries