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Saranya Pathanasin – rEFLections, 2025
This study approaches multilingualism on Phuket Island by means of a linguistic landscape (LL) analysis. The data in this study consists of 185 photographs of shop signs taken from popular streets on the island. They were analyzed via a mixed-methods approach. It was found that different languages were purposely chosen to indicate or showcase the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Photography, Signs, Ethnic Groups
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Sultana, Shaila; Bolander, Brook – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
The paper foregrounds analysis of the significance of English in individual and collective life in relation to a myriad of feelings that religious and ethnic minorities experience in South and Central Asia within their multilingual ecology. The data reveal an entangling of varied yet coexisting emotions on the part of these minorities in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Denman, Feargus – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article examines how Russian speakers in Ireland delimit and describe (their/the) Russian language in relation to representations of standard Russian. It is based on analysis of discussions conducted between speakers of Russian living in Ireland, facilitated by the Our Languages (2008-2011) research project, investigating multilingualism and…
Descriptors: Russian, Metalinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries
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Yoel, Judith – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a Canadian, minority sign language that originally stems from British Sign Language (BSL). Currently used by elderly Deaf people in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland (and Labrador), it is a moribund language, having undergone language shift to American Sign Language (ASL). MSL is…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Older Adults, Deafness
Delin Deng – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this work, based on an oral corpus of semi-directed interviews conducted in French with 40 L1 Chinese speakers learning French in France and in English with 29 L1 Chinese speakers learning English in the United States, I investigated the quotative system in non-native speech of English and French as it is used in the Chinese diaspora in Paris…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Boonsuk, Yusop; Ambele, Eric A. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
English nowadays serves as a global lingua franca (ELF) for diverse ethno-lingua users. This research aims to explore how Southern Thai university student's view ELF, and its integration into English language teaching (ELT) in Thailand where English is used as a foreign language (EFL). 250 students from five southern-Thai universities purposely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Universities
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Kogawa, Eliza – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This essay investigates the classroom talk and reflections of a Year 5 lesson on reading and writing beyond Standard English. Its title refers to 'Reflecting Realities', the CLPE survey of ethnic diversity in UK children's books. In changing 'reflecting' to 'representing' I seek to move beyond concern with sourcing representative texts to the work…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Childrens Literature
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Nabilla, Noor Vatha; Wahyudi, Ribut – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
English as a lingua franca (ELF) has created some sense of L2 learner identity in ELF communication. However, there is still a lack of exploration of EFL learners' identities in the ELF context. This study aims to find out how EFL learners' identities are categorized based on global, local and glocal identities. The study falls into critical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nieto, Sonia – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
In this personal reflection, Sonia Nieto recounts the lessons she learned about language and literacy from learning to speak Spanish and then English; to reading and writing; and the impact of these lessons on her identity, teaching, research, and life; and, more broadly, on the fields of education and literacy.
Descriptors: Self Concept, Spanish, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
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Tan, Kim Hua; Farashaiyan, Atieh; Sahragard, Rahman; Faryabi, Fatemeh – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The position of the English language in the world has recently undergone an enormous shift. The global spread of English has altered its status from being a homogeneous and standard language spoken by a few powerful countries into an international language or lingua franca spoken by a wide variety of speakers around the world (Llurda, 2004). The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Li, Jia; Han, Huamei – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Based on a larger ethnography (Li, 2017. Social Reproduction and Migrant Education: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Burmese Students' Learning Experiences at a Border High School in China. (PhD), Macquarie University. http://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LI_Jia_Social_reproduction_and_migrant_education.pdf) and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Learning Experience, High School Students
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Prinsloo-Marcus, Loraine; Campbell, Bridget – English in Education, 2022
To write a linguistic autobiography is to explore and reflect on our lived experiences with language. The purpose of this research was to gain insight into students' language experiences through their linguistic autobiographies and to gain a greater understanding of their relationship with and thoughts on language within their social contexts. In…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Autobiographies, Learning Experience, Social Environment
Zambrana, Pier Angeli LeCompte – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this dissertation, I will identify and analyze the serious problems that have arisen in the Caribbean due to the imposition of European colonial languages as languages of instruction in the education systems of those territories of the region where the majority of the population speak a creole language. I will also identify and analyze the…
Descriptors: Creoles, Self Concept, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Formosinho, Maria; Jesus, Paulo; Reis, Carlos – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and values. Thus, language education constitutes one of the most powerful means for both social reproduction and social production and ideological maintenance and utopian innovation. In this…
Descriptors: Language Role, Self Concept, Monolingualism, Multilingualism
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Corona, Víctor – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter explains part of a broader study. To be specific, it is based on the research the author has been conducting in the city of Barcelona from 2005 through to the present day on what it means to "be Latino" in a youth- and school-based context. The work was essentially inspired by the ethnography of communication and the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Latin Americans, Spanish, Language Variation
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