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Michael Mora-Rodriguez – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
In today's global world, many people can move across borders as travelling has become much easier in many ways. However, the securitization of borders has not been relaxed, implying that multilingual police-civilian interactions are becoming more 'commonplace'. Within the framework of conversation analysis, this article presents a novel study on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, National Security, Police, Second Languages
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Chao Cai; Jinying Huang – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Due to the current status of English as a lingua franca in numerous domains, increasing attention has been directed toward the economic potential of English. However, research on languages other than English from an economic perspective remains limited. This study aims to address this gap by examining the labor market demand for Japanese language…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Carol A. Ready – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Language Variation, Immigrants
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Jan Houška – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
The paper applies language management theory to study the interactions of international with local workers (simple management) and language policies (organised management) in 10 Czech video game studios. By longitudinally interviewing foreign game developers from Central-Eastern and Western Europe, as well as North and South America, I identified…
Descriptors: Video Games, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gogolin, Ingrid; Schnoor, Birger; Usanova, Irina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
Throughout an educational career, literacy skills become more elaborated. However, little is known about the development of reading and writing skills in foreign languages in adolescents. In this contribution, we focused on the development of language skills in the foreign languages English and French in Germany as measured by a C-Test. Hereby, we…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sepielak, Katarzyna; Wladyka, Dawid; Yaworsky, William – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
The proficiency in vernacular has long been a methodological ethos pervasive among field researchers and--despite new dynamics of fieldwork--still overshadows discussions related to collaboration with translators and interpreters, which are either marginalized or hidden within the category of a 'research assistant'. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Researchers, Translation, Sociology
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Dijkstra, Bianca E.; Coler, Matt; Redeker, Gisela – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
Although international truckers are essential to the European supply chain, we know little about how they deal with their frequent multilingual workplace interactions. This paper examines the effects of participants' Individual Multilingual Repertoires (Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016. World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Work Environment, Indo European Languages, Polish
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Bodis, Agnes – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
International students studying at Australian universities are largely represented in the media as problematic speakers of English, in part due to the dominance of the monolingual mindset as an approach to language. This paper focuses instead on international students' multilingualism and examines the multimodal media representation of them as…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ding, Seong Lin; Chee, Wei Han – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
Language problems and language barriers are challenges facing not only immigrants but also minorities and people in rural/semirural areas. This study examines individuals' bi- and multilingual repertoires, language practices and attitudes in a Hokkien-speaking community in Kangar, a semirural town of northern Malaysia bordering Thailand. Through…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Language Minorities
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Hopp, Holger; Kieseier, Teresa; Jakisch, Jenny; Sturm, Sarah; Thoma, Dieter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This paper reports findings of a project on pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) among 128 fourth-grade students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools. Over a period of six months, 20% of lesson time in EFL classes was devoted to multilingualism involving students' minority languages. In a control group pre-post-test…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tamtomo, Kristian – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
Indonesian vocational secondary education reflects the increasingly multilingual demands of globalized education and labor market. This study focuses on two orders of multiple languages that are present in vocational high schools in Semarang, Central Java. It aims not only to describe the different orders of languages, but also to suggest that…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
Translanguaging has gained prominence as a way to understand multilingual practices and draw on these in additional language teaching, but questions remain regarding its application in various educational contexts. This study investigates the significance of translanguaging across instructional settings by comparing discourses of markedness in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zheng, Yongyan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper examines the multilingual translation efforts of a group of university student volunteers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of the volunteer team leader, team members, and a local community health worker. Findings identified time constraints, limited language proficiency,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pandemics
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Muth, Sebastian; Suryanarayan, Neelakshi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners…
Descriptors: Tourism, Health Services, Language Usage, Entrepreneurship
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
"Cunt" is currently one of the most offensive words in the English language and is usually censored in the English press and media. The present study looks firstly at differences between 1159 first (L1) and 1165 foreign (LX) users of English in their perceived understanding of the word, its perceived offensiveness and their self-reported…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), English, Native Language
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