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Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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A Bad Start to the School Year: Despite New Regulation Immigrant Parents Still Face Major Language Barriers [PDF]
This report reveals serious lapses in the provision of language assistance services to immigrant parents found during Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s month-long monitoring of high school registration centers and a survey of select parent ...
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Color as A Narrative Device in Illustration: A Systematic Review
Color in picture book illustration operates simultaneously as a representational code, cognitive scaffold, and affective cue supporting theories such as Dual Coding and multimodal discourse while revealing gaps in methodology and cross‐cultural research.
Lidia Jiménez‐Duarte +2 more
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Teaching Reading as a Complex and Multidimensional Process
ABSTRACT This article examines the teaching of reading as a complex and multidimensional process amidst current approaches to teaching reading forwarded by new legislation and curricula that have been adopted across the United States. We underscore the importance of a comprehensive understanding of the teaching of early reading by bringing together ...
Faythe Beauchemin +3 more
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Contact as catalyst: The case for Coptic influence in the development of Arabic negation [PDF]
This article discusses similar developments in the expression of negation in the histories of Egyptian-Coptic and Arabic and explores the evidence for these respective developments being related by language contact. Both Coptic and Arabic have undergone
Abun-Nasr +47 more
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ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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"Copula deletion" in restructured Portuguese
Brazilian linguists have taken to discussing what Ribeiro (2009:220) calls “o apagamento da cópula na construção de clivagem” [‘the deletion of the copula in cleft constructions’] in reference to sentences in Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese (BVP) like ...
John Holm, Patrícia Vieira Machado
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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-Bridget Brereton, Emilia Viotti Da Costa, Crowns of glory, tears of blood: The Demerara slave rebellion of 1823. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xix + 378 pp. -Grant D. Jones, Assad Shoman, 13 Chapters of a history of Belize.
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Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature [PDF]
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Riach, Alan
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