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Megan Alyssa Ehrenfeld – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language is connected to a people, culture, history, and communicative purpose. One way world language teachers help students explore the intersections of culture and language is through the use of authentic texts, such as films, newspapers, podcasts, videos, music or short stories (see: Pinzon, 2020). While the research points to the success of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cultural Awareness
Gregory Paul Glasgow – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book examines the pedagogical and professional experiences of a transnational group of teachers from the African continent and diaspora who made the decision to live and teach English in Japan. Through a layered analytical framework, it explores how these teachers struggle to negotiate their raciolinguistic identities in contexts that may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Language Teachers, Minority Groups
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Ernesto Macaro; Ikuya Aizawa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The steady increase in content courses being taught through the medium of English in non-Anglophone countries has been matched by a rapidly growing output of research and commentary on the topic. There are also a number of providers now offering professional development for English Medium Instruction (EMI) teachers. We carried out a systematic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Rajeev Kumaramkandath – Higher Education Forum, 2024
The paper examines how new age pedagogies and neoliberal policies consciously work towards "naturalizing" English language's hegemony in institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in India. An ethnographic study the paper foregrounds the precarious positioning of non-English Indian languages "vis-à-vis" the pervading discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Leena Maria Heikkola; Jenni Alisaari; Heli Vigren; Nancy Commins – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The current Finnish core curriculum requires all teachers in basic education to be linguistically responsive. However, studies on the linguistically responsive practices used by teachers are scarce. The frequency with which teachers (N = 820) use 21 linguistically responsive practices was investigated through data that were gathered via an online…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Teaching Experience
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Zhang, Xiaojuan; Cheng, Bing; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: High-variability phonetic training (HVPT) has been found to be effective on adult second language (L2) learning, but results are mixed in regards to the benefit of multiple talkers over single talker. This study provides a systematic review with meta-analysis to investigate the talker variability effect in nonnative phonetic learning and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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Alharbi, Sultan H. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This genre-based study investigates the move-step structure of two sets of English-medium research article introductions (RAIs) in the field of applied linguistics using Swales' (1990, 2004) Create a Research Space (CARS) model of move/step analysis. A corpus of 30 RAIs from two English-medium research articles (15 International and 15 Local) was…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Research Reports, Text Structure, Applied Linguistics
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Safar, Josefina – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In this paper, I discuss methodological and ethical issues that arose in the process of documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). YMSLs are indigenous sign languages used by deaf and hearing people in Yucatec Maya villages with a high incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. The documentation of rural…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
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Limerick, Nicholas; Hornberger, Nancy H. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
One of the central paradoxes of textbook authorship in Indigenous languages is that some of those for whom the textbooks are intended find it challenging to read them. Here, through examining cases of Quechua across the Andes in Peru and in Ecuador, we consider the role of orthography in this paradox. Textbook authors must decide on an alphabet…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
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Stovicek, Thomas W. – Applied Language Learning, 2021
Recent empirical research in sociolinguistics and social psychology has established the existence of the socio-psychological phenomena known as linguistic stereotyping (LS) and reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS), which have an implicit or unconscious effect on listeners' perception of speech and speakers. Despite such findings, little research…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Sociolinguistics, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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Tartory, Raeda – English Language Teaching, 2020
The study aims to identify the perceptions of university students of Jordan towards the role of internet in learning and improving their understanding of Englishes and English language skills. The study followed a cross-sectional study design and a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 181 university level students studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Internet
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Gordon, Moragh; Oudesluijs, Tino; Auer, Anita – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article contributes to existing studies that are concerned with standardisation and supralocalisation processes in the development of written English during the Early Modern English period. By focussing on and comparing civic records and letter data from important regional urban centres, notably Bristol, Coventry and York, from the period…
Descriptors: English, Language Variation, Urban Areas, Written Language
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Kytö, Merja; Walker, Terry – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This study concerns the development of the determiners MINE/MY and THINE/THY in the Early Modern English period. The -N forms had essentially been ousted before words starting with consonants over the Middle English period, and over the subsequent centuries, these forms also fell into disuse before words starting with initial vowels and…
Descriptors: English, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation, Standard Spoken Usage
Sanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
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Coy, Andre; Watson, Stefan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This article compares acoustic data of normally developing children from two dominant and one nondominant variety of English in order to determine phonetic proximity. Method: The study focuses on one variety of American English (AE), one British English (BE) variety, and one Jamaican English (JE) variety owing to the historical and…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Language Variation, North American English
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