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Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work [PDF]
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both ...
Catherine Durnell Cramton +2 more
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Erasmus students using English as a "lingua franca": does study abroad in a non-English-speaking country improve L2 English? [PDF]
, 2016 There is a lack of research on the impact of study abroad (SA) on the development of L2 English when students study in non-anglophone countries. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by examining 39 Catalan/Spanish students who, as part of an ...
Arnó Macià, Elisabet +2 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study involved a three‐level meta‐analysis on the correlations between metalinguistic awareness (i.e., orthographic, phonological, and morphological awareness) and Chinese word reading. Based on 16,823 individuals from 81 studies, the results revealed moderate associations between all three metalinguistic skills and Chinese word reading ...
Xuan Zang +3 more
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Girmitiya nationalism: Lived cultures and diasporic bonding in a plural society
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.Abstract Nationalism studies tend to focus on a relatively closed and abstract nation. This paper addresses these features by analysing the case of Girmitiya nationalism, a nationalism in the Indian diaspora that broadens the exclusive focus on the nation.
Ruben Gowricharn
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Cultural Representation in Chinese University English Language Teaching Textbooks
Education SciencesGlobalization enhances communication among people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. As cultural artifacts, English language teaching textbooks are crucial media for learners’ intercultural education, especially under the concept of ...
Hui Zhang, Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
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Language and culture in international legal communication [PDF]
, 2013 In the contemporary business world, partners belonging to different nations, and hence different cultures, conduct business operations in either the language of one of the parties involved or in a third, neutral language, serving as lingua franca.
Kocbek, Alenka
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper articulates the implications of linguistic relativity for liberal nationalism and the objectivity of national culture. The nationalism scholarship of recent decades has been largely characterized by a modernist and constructivist orthodoxy that emphasises the artificial, top‐down and socially constructed nature of national culture ...
Rhianwen Daniel
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Studies in English Language and EducationEnglish Medium Instruction (EMI) has been implemented globally as a strategy for the internationalization of Higher Education Institutions to promote global competence and mobility.
Komilie Situmorang, Santa Maya Pramusita
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English as a Lingua Franca in a Multilingual India
Journal of Language and Education, 2019 In this opinion article, we highlight that the cultural policy of language in India has resulted in an impasse in regard to determining and deciding upon a national language policy.
Ishwarya N. Iyer, Sridhar Ramachandran
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Enhancing risk and crisis communication with computational methods: A systematic literature review
Risk Analysis, EarlyView.Abstract Recent developments in risk and crisis communication (RCC) research combine social science theory and data science tools to construct effective risk messages efficiently. However, current systematic literature reviews (SLRs) on RCC primarily focus on computationally assessing message efficacy as opposed to message efficiency. We conduct an SLR
Madison H. Munro +4 more
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