NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Mohamadsaid, Ashqi; Rasheed, Shaima – Online Submission, 2019
This paper will focus on the aims to show for us why English known as a global language and why other languages do not have this ability. It is argued that English as a global language has some advantages to people around the world. One of the advantages is that English language is utilized as a tool of communication, empowerment and unification…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Language Role, Intercultural Communication
Leichsenring, Andrew; McBride, Paul; Ogane, Ethel; Milliner, Brett – Online Submission, 2015
The Center for English as a Lingua Franca (CELF), an initiative of a private university in Tokyo, was founded with serious consideration given to the pedagogical implications of the widespread use of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Such deliberation is not yet prevalent among academics and practitioners who should be most affected by ELF…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Language Role, English (Second Language), Educational Change
Jambor, Paul Z. – Online Submission, 2011
There appears to be a direct as well as an indirect link between the scholastic presence of the English language at any particular university and its respective Times Higher Education-Thomson Reuters 2010 World University Ranking, one of numerous world university rankings. Due to the author's familiarity and to some extent intimate relationship…
Descriptors: Universities, Language Role, Higher Education, Familiarity
Meganathan, Ramanujam – Online Submission, 2011
Background: This is a chapter in the book titled, Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language. Purpose: To study the role of language in development. Setting: National Council of Educational Research and Training. Study Sample: All India. Intervention: Survey Methods. Research Design: Statistical Survey; Qualitative. Data…
Descriptors: Research Design, Language Planning, Educational Research, Second Language Learning
Adejimola, Amuseghan Sunday – Online Submission, 2010
Language, language policy and curriculum issues occupy very important and strategic places in educational planning in any society. In a multilingual Nigerian society as well as in similar countries like Australia, India or even in seemingly homogeneous linguistic societies like Britain, language planning, development and policies are sin qua non.…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Language Planning, Educational Planning, Language of Instruction