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Kubota, Ryuko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Neoliberal ideology compels people to develop language skills as human capital. As English is considered to be the most useful language for global communication, learning, and teaching, English has been promoted in many countries. However, the belief that English connects people from diverse linguistic backgrounds in a borderless society…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language Attitudes, Human Capital, Qualitative Research
Gasanov, Z. T. – Soviet Education, 1976
The role of Russian as the language of intercommunication in the ethnically diverse peoples of the Soviet Union is examined. (DE)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Language Attitudes
Randall, Alice Fracker – 1979
In recent years both scientists and laypeople have viewed with dismay the notion that science seems mysteriously different from other areas of human concern. Scientific language is part of the mystique. Yet scientific language is human language before it is science. The mystique that people ascribe to scientific language is of their own making,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Communication Problems, Language Attitudes