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Musa Nushi; Alireza Aghaei – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Culture is an inseparable part of English Language Teaching (ELT), and ELT textbooks, as one of the main instructional resources are bound to include cultural and linguistic content. However, the kind of cultural content in these books has been a controversial issue for decades. It is recommended that curriculum designers use intercultural…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stephanie Gross – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
As English becomes an established lingua franca in the ASEAN region, what should be the pedagogical approach to oral skills and pronunciation teaching in the region? Should teachers target common features and patterns developing in ASEAN English or target more "Western" pronunciation? This study strives to balance the discussion of the…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wolfram, Walt – 1992
A discussion of the role of sociolinguistics in the treatment of communication disorders focuses on issues related to dialect and language variation. It begins with an examination of linguistic diversity and dynamic description of language, reporting on a study of speech and language pathologists' judgments of sentences in African American…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Communication Disorders, Cultural Awareness, Dialects
Neustupny, J. V. – 1974
Prior to the development of modern sociolinguistics the immediate contribution of linguistics to society as a whole was negligible. Without the further development of sociolinguistics, the situation will not change radically. In order to arrive at a more useful system of linguistics, linguists must realize that this situation does not result…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Language Acquisition
Bloor, Meriel; Bloor, Thomas – 1986
A discussion of the practice and theory in the teaching of language for specific purposes (LSP) focuses on the ways in which the LSP experience, and especially experience in English for specific purposes (ESP), compels a new evaluation of certain theoretical positions in applied linguistics and second language learning. It concludes that: (1) the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Needs, Educational Theories, English for Special Purposes