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Lucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert; Hill, Joseph C.; McCaskill, Carolyn – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Recent research has shown that a distinct variety of American Sign Language, known as Black ASL, developed in the segregated schools for deaf African Americans in the US South during the pre-civil rights era. Research has also shown that in some respects Black ASL is closer than most white varieties to the standard taught in ASL classes and found…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Sign Language, African Americans
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Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu; Tsang, Samuel C. S. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper proposes a tripartite model describing the lexical categories across different registers and levels of formality in the Cantonese language in contemporary Hong Kong: (1) native Cantonese words; (2) Sino-Cantonese words, and (3) Anglo-Cantonese words. Examples of authentic Cantonese use were used to illustrate the histories and etymology…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
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Liu, Honggang; Zhang, Xi; Fang, Fan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
With the expanding use of English around the world, it is important to understand various stakeholders' attitudes towards it from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. The GE perspective has challenged native speakerism and recognized the multilingual nature of the English language. In particular, a GE perspective leads to the sustainable…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Meknakha, Hataimart; Timyam, Napasri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Previous research in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has revealed that deviations in lexicogrammar are not always random, but a result of underlying communicative processes (Cogo & Dewey, 2012; Guziurová, 2020; Jafari, 2021; Ranta, 2013, 2022). Most previous studies relied upon spoken interactions, particularly in business and academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Khatuna Buskivadze – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The present study aims to investigate the socio- and applied linguistic functions and frequency of lecturers' language behaviors (code-switching (CS), code-mixing (CM), and translanguaging) in terms of showing lecturers' social identity in the Georgian educational discourse, namely, in teaching Business English (English for Specific Purposes -…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Requena, Pablo E.; Tissera, María Victoria – Hispania, 2018
This study examines how faithfully second language (L2) Spanish textbooks represent the variability found in natural language use with regard to variable clitic placement (VCP). We offer a corpus study of VCP in the language used throughout nine Spanish L2 textbooks, which constitute all the available textbooks designed to teach Rioplatense…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Languages, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Standards
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Holt, Yolanda Feimster – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This research explored mechanisms of vowel variation in African American English by comparing 2 geographically distant groups of African American and White American English speakers for participation in the African American Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift. Method: Thirty-two male (African American: n = 16, White American controls: n =…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Vowels, Comparative Analysis
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Gondra, Ager – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This paper presents an analysis of the structure of relative clauses with an indirect object or adjunct gap in two Mundaka Basque varieties ("Mundaka Basque I" and "Mundaka Basque II"). In Mundaka Basque I, relativization of indirect objects and adjuncts is grammatical when the relative clause is in subject or direct object…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Syntax, Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This research study investigates the effectiveness of a pedagogical model (an interventional framework) of contextualised instruction through Reverso Context, a comprehensive language and translation tool, in developing the translation skills of senior EFL student teachers. The study employs a quasi-experimental one-group pre-post design, with a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kindel Turner Nash; Roderick Peele; Kerry Elson; Alicia Arce; Erik Sumner; Bilal Polson – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This article highlights a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading (CSVR), a complex reader model illuminated by vivid findings from an eight-year collaborative classroom-based study and extensive reviews of cognitive and sociocultural research. Within the CSVR, reading is conceptualized as being shaped by a readers' culturally and linguistically…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Reading, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes
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Ee-Ling Low – TESOL Journal, 2025
Singapore is an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse nation-state that has always practiced deliberate language policy and planning. The bilingual education policy, introduced shortly after the young nation's independence has led to the emergence of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
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Jahromi, Diana Al – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
The various facets and networks of social media have had significantly phenomenal influence on the individual life and on the societal, economic, and political status of their users. The linguistic discourse of interlocutors on social media has also been influenced. The current study aims at measuring how the English language learning process of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Rushaidi, Sultan Mohammed Saaiyed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper seeks to intellectually stimulate researchers who are interested in the history of grammar and the long-standing debate about prescriptivism. Contrary to popular belief, there are scholars who still put forward arguments about the significant role played by prescriptive grammar in the development of Modern Standard English. Such…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda; Donaldson, Bryan; Carmichael, Katie – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This study aims to advance the understanding of sociolinguistic competence among near-native speakers and to further knowledge about the acquisition of variable structures. We conduct a quantitative analysis of variable future-time expression in informal conversations between near-native and native speakers of French. In addition to examining…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, French, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Wahid, Ridwan – Journal of English as an International Language, 2020
Usage of definite and indefinite articles is known to vary across different varieties of English, especially in the outer circle. As a semantic/pragmatic category, definiteness is notoriously slippery to define -- is it uniqueness, familiarity, inclusiveness or identifiability? Literature has shown that the lack of an agreed definition can…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages)
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