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Ndiribe, Matthew Onyebuchi; Aboh, Sopuruchi Christian – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Multilingualism in a multi-cultural setting could be a problem especially where there is a politics of winner takes all. It creates room for marginalisation especially where there is no functional system to check the excesses of the policy implementers. This study examines multilingualism and marginalisation in Nigeria politicisation. The specific…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Muslims, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism
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Boulard, Florence – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
New Caledonia is a French overseas territory in the South Pacific with a long history of differing attitudes towards independence (Fisher, 2019). The local government aims to challenge French cultural hegemony by building a "New Caledonian School" (Gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, 2016). That is, a school in which students are…
Descriptors: Picture Books, English (Second Language), French, Foreign Policy
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Maddox, John – Hispania, 2017
In times of crisis when literature and world languages are threatened by economic hardship, they should draw closer to African diaspora studies. The African diaspora is so vast, longstanding, and diverse that it must be studied using a comparative, multilingual, interdisciplinary, and international approach that includes study in French,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Spanish
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Kankaanranta, Anne; Karhunen, Päivi; Louhiala-Salminen, Leena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This conceptual paper advances the notion of "English as corporate language" in the multilingual reality of multinational companies (MNC) with novel insights from the English as lingua franca (ELF) paradigm of sociolinguistics. Inspired by Goffman, Erving. 1959. "The presentation of self in everyday life." New York: Doubleday.…
Descriptors: Corporations, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Sibomana, Emmanuel – Education as Change, 2016
Historically, some languages and discourses which were initially localised subsequently became regionally or even globally dominant. Currently, English is the dominant global language in all domains, including the academic. Thus academics and scholars from non-English backgrounds are at a disadvantage: they have to adhere to academic literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Interviews
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Chakrani, Brahim; Huang, Jason L. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This article investigates overt language attitudes and linguistic practices among French-taught university students in Morocco, showing the relationship between language behavior and attitudes. The results reveal a class-based divide in respondents' patterns of language use, in their support of the French monolingual sanitized classroom, and in…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, French, Semitic Languages, Language Variation
Charlot, Martine – Francais dans le Monde, 1978
The marginal social situation in France of immigrant laborers is aggravated by their ignorance of the language. This survey of the situation includes statistics, a description of educational programs and methodologies for immigrants, and useful information for French teachers desirous of returning to France. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, French, Immigrants
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Cohen, Avraham – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1983
Since polysemy narrows down the semantic autonomy of the isolated word and increases the importance of the surrounding context, teaching children this concept is critical in order to prevent ambiguity and confusion. Concerning socially disadvantaged children, it is particularly essential to convey the idea that one phenomenon can have different…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, French, Language Attitudes, Learning Motivation