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Brett Milliner; Blagoja Dimoski – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This classroom study evaluates the effectiveness of pre-teaching communication strategies before learners undertake an information-gap speaking task. A convenience sample of 67 first-year students taking mandatory English classes at a private Japanese university was subject to one of two instructional approaches. The experimental group (n=37)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Training, College Freshmen, Second Language Instruction
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Matsuda, Aya – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
One comment I often receive when I talk about teaching English as an international language (TEIL) is that TEIL is all about being politically correct--a mere gesture to be inclusive and egalitarian, promoted by a certain ideological stance. It is true that there are certain ideologies, language and beyond, that are compatible with certain aspects…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Politics of Education, Political Attitudes
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Vettorel, Paola – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
The complex and varied sociolinguistic reality of World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has important implications for English Language Teaching (ELT). Besides questioning the validity of the 'native speaker model', the complexity of Global Englishes raises several issues, both at a theoretical and at an applied level, particularly…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Communication Strategies
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McKay, Sandra Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
A great deal has been written about what English as an International Language (EIL) actually is (e.g. Alsagoff et al., 2012; Matsuda, 2012; McKay and Brown, 2016; Sharifian, 2009), ranging from a view of EIL as the many varieties of English that are spoken today to the use of English by second language speakers of English. Thus, EIL is viewed both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Xu, Zhichang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
The English language has been going through a dual process of globalization and nativization. The globalization of English renders the language into a global lingua franca and an international language, whereas the nativization of English diversifies it into varieties of English, namely, World Englishes. Such 'glocalization' of English has…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Global Approach
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Lim, Sovannarith – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
English has been referred to as a lingua franca for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). As the region moves towards establishing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the diversity of pronunciation of the ASEAN member states is seen as a forefront issue for English language teaching (ELT). From a sociocultural perspective, this study…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Issa, Ali S. M. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2007
The education system in general and ELT in particular are rigidly controlled in the Sultanate of Oman, which gives teachers little room to supplement the mandated textbook. This article, hence, discusses ideologies about the "flexible" ELT syllabus and the role of the teacher's professionalism in the syllabus implementation process. One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Official Languages