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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
Zhang, Weiwei – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper discussed the relationship between language, ecology, and culture, and claimed that the study of linguistic communication as pragmatics should not be confined to the traditional context, but should focus on a broader ecological environment. It analyzed the context of practical communication from the perspective of language ecology…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Classification, Correlation, Ecology
Yang, Yikuan – English Language Teaching, 2018
In response to an age of turmoil and oppression, Lu Xun's fiction features irony and it is manifested in artistic form which should be retained in English translation to achieve equivalence. Failure to do so would weaken or lose the ironical effect intended by Lu Xun and result in Western readers' inclination to neglect historical and social…
Descriptors: Fiction, Translation, English, Chinese
Peng, Yuan-yuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Recently, there are limited specific researches on the pragmatic strategies of teachers' criticism from the angle of the Politeness Principle, among which most of them argue that teachers should adopt appropriate politeness strategies when criticizing students. However, only a few researchers point out that Leech's Politeness Principle is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Empathy, Criticism
Huttayavilaiphan, Rutthaphak – English Language Teaching, 2021
Currently, the role of English language has changed from being a language used among native English speakers (NESs) to being a language spoken by people of various backgrounds or known as English as a lingua franca (ELF). This phenomenon has affected different aspects of global English usage and users across the world. However, in Thailand, this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
Al-Mutairi, Mohammad A. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper attempts to examine in a descriptive way the pioneering model of "World Englishes" proposed by Kachru in the mid-1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: The "Inner" Circle, the "Outer" Circle, and the "Expanding" Circle. The Inner Circle presents the countries…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Billy, Roslyn J. F.; Garríguez, Carmen Medina – English Language Teaching, 2021
Social and emotional learning (SEL) has become an avant-garde term in the last few years. It is how people acquire and apply knowledge, attitudes and skills to understand and control emotions. Incorporating the SEL perspective, teachers can not only help students set and achieve positive goals, but also help students understand how empathizing…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Student Development
Lu, Licheng – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on Jenny Thomas's dichotomous classification of pragmatic failure, this study proposes a new perspective and classifies pragmatic failure in interpretation into three categories: pragma-linguistic failure, socio-pragmatic failure and malaprop-pragmatic failure. Specific examples are given to illustrate the causes and effects of each category…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gao, Linghui – English Language Teaching, 2019
College English writing is one of the four basic skills in English learning, which can objectively reflect students' language ability. Whereas, English writing is considered to be the most difficult part to improve. As we can see, in the essays of the Chinese college students, there often appears Chinglish, correct in grammar but unauthentic in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Zeng, Zhengping – English Language Teaching, 2018
Anderson's central concern in his "ELT Journal" article (Vol. 69, No. 3, 2015) is to introduce several helpful changes teachers can make to a regular lesson plan pro forma due to a particular language learning environment and unpredictable events. In introducing these changes, Anderson discusses affordance, learning objectives, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lesson Plans
Liu, Zhengyuan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Idiom variation is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon which has raised a lot of research questions. The past approach was either formal or functional. Both of them did not pay much attention to cognitive factors of language users. By putting idiom variation in the framework of linguistic subjectivity, we have offered a new perspective in the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Guidelines, Grammar, Language Usage
Hung, Nguyen Viet – English Language Teaching, 2012
Researches of English language teaching (ELT) have focused on using mother tongue (L1) for years. The proliferation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been also occurred. Considerable findings have been made in the existing literature of the two fields; however, no mentions have been made in the combination of these two ELT aspects, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Ayeomoni, Moses Omoniyi – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper views Nigeria as a multilingual country with diverse languages and cultures to the extent that the total number of languages spoken right now in Nigeria is about 500 (See Adegbite 2010). This linguistic diversity in the country has occasioned the development and the spread of the concepts of bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Yang, Chunli – English Language Teaching, 2010
Idioms is a special culture which is shaped in the daily lives of the local people, particularly the idioms of diet has a close relation with various elements, such as the eating custom, history, fairy tales, geographic situations. Also, different ways of translation on different diet idioms in English and Chinese will be analyzed in this article.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Chinese, English, Language Usage
Zhao, Xiaonan; Dong, Jingping – English Language Teaching, 2010
Political euphemism is a tool for political leaders to control information transmission. Based on some examples, this paper begins with a summary of three features which distinguish political euphemism from others. Then, it discusses its two social functions based on Austin's Speech Act Theory: 1) as political leaders' tool, political euphemism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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