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Alice Chik; Jill Murray – ELT Journal, 2024
Migrant families often invite grandparents to move to Australia when babies are born. In order to provide support to their families, many of these grandparents have to retire from their own professional careers and migrate to Australia to start new lives. Some speak English as an additional language, with or without formal education, prior to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Grandparents, Parent Child Relationship, Quality of Life
Osman Solmaz – ELT Journal, 2023
This cross-sectional study attempts to investigate the impacts of linguistic landscape (LL) tasks on EFL teacher candidates' understanding of English in local and global contexts. To this end, three cohorts of student teachers carried out LL fieldwork, uploaded images of English signage to an LL application, Lingscape, and submitted a mini…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Teacher Education Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Richards, Jack C.; Pun, Jack – ELT Journal, 2022
With the expanding role of English medium instruction (EMI) worldwide there has been an increasing use of English to teach content subjects at tertiary level. In implementing EMI a common assumption has been that the primary issue affecting successful EMI is the English proficiency level of the EMI instructor. This paper reviews this assumption by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kwihangana, Felix – ELT Journal, 2021
This study explored multilingual students' attitudes towards translanguaging after the practice was introduced in group activities aimed at improving their English language skills and classroom engagement. A cohort of students taking a pre-sessional English course at a college of technology in Rwanda were initiated into translanguaging. They were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
Kiczkowiak, Marek – ELT Journal, 2021
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), for example identifying the lingua franca core (LFC), or pronunciation features important for intelligibility in ELF contexts. While some analyses of course books (CBs) have shown ELF research findings are not yet reflected in these materials, few…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Meighan, Paul?J. – ELT Journal, 2023
There is a relationship between language and the environment. Languages shape worldviews, inform behaviours, and are not disconnected from local political, sociocultural, and ecological contexts. English has an enduring colonial, imperialist, and assimilationist legacy and can be easily delinked from context, culture, and place. In this article,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Equal Education
Kiczkowiak, Marek – ELT Journal, 2020
The unprecedented rise of English to become a global lingua franca has sparked a growing academic interest with numerous research publications on global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and English as an international language. Although this research has led to numerous informative findings concerning pronunciation, pragmatics, and…
Descriptors: Material Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – ELT Journal, 2018
This article reports on the implementation of an out-of-class communication component of a university ELT course in Hong Kong to raise students' awareness of the pluralistic nature of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Drawing on students' written reflections as part of the coursework, the study investigated how out-of-class ELF communication…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sewell, Andrew – ELT Journal, 2013
This article examines certain aspects of the debate surrounding English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It argues that in some ways, neither ELF nor its opponents have come to terms with the complexities of English in a globalized world. By defining ELF according to how it differs from native-speaker language use, ELF researchers have tended to…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Official Languages, Language Role, Native Speakers
Sowden, Colin – ELT Journal, 2012
In an effort to curtail native-speaker dominance of global English, and in recognition of the growing role of the language among non-native speakers from different first-language backgrounds, some academics have been urging the teaching of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Although at first this proposal seems to offer a plausible alternative to…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Official Languages
Illes, Eva – ELT Journal, 2012
This article explores whether the perception of learner autonomy that is promoted in language pedagogy is suitable for preparing students to perform successfully in the changed circumstances of the use of English. Recent developments, which include the growing role of English as a lingua franca and computer-mediated communication (CMC), give rise…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Computer Mediated Communication

Modiano, Marko – ELT Journal, 2001
Argues that while linguistic imperialism is real and needs to be addressed, one way for the language instructor to come to terms with the cultural imposition of English language teaching is to define English as an international language. Suggests promoting "prestige varieties" positions the practitioner as purveyor of Anglo-American hegemony and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Role

Canagarajah, A. Suresh – ELT Journal, 1999
Contrasts linguistic imperialism and linguistic hybridity and comments on a previous article that suggests the role of English in endangering regional languages and cultures no longer holds true. The role of the English-a-as-Foreign-Language teacher is discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Dominance, Language Role

Rajagopalan, Kanavillil – ELT Journal, 1999
Responds to comments by Canagarajah, which were written in response to an article that suggested that the role of English in endangering regional languages and cultures no longer holds true. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Dominance, Language Role

Rajagopalan, Kanavillil – ELT Journal, 1999
Discusses the view that the spread of English is endangering many regional languages and their corresponding cultures. Suggests that this view is based on premises that no longer hold true in a world marked by cultural intermixing and growing multilingualism. Implications for the English-as-a-Second-Language teacher are highlighted. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Dominance
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