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An investigation of Japanese university students' attitudes towards English [PDF]

, 2011
As a global language, English has spread to the extent that non-native speakers now outnumber native speakers. In the last few decades, a body of research literature has emerged demonstrating the decreasing global relevance of native English speakers ...
Galloway, Nicola
core  

English as a lingua franca in higher education

Ibérica, 2011
The last decade has brought a number of changes for higher education in continental Europe and elsewhere, a major one being the increasing use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) as the medium of instruction.
Beyza Björkman
doaj  

Challenging the Monolith: Ambivalence, the Native‐Speaker Ideal and Teacher Preparation in Multilingual South Africa

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the ambivalence of final‐year TESOL pre‐service teachers towards a non‐native‐speaking (NNS) lecturer within a historically white South African university. The research involved twelve student teachers being prepared to teach English as either a home language or a first additional language to high school learners in the ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring students' performance using lingua franca in science education: a study of grade ten students in Capiz, Philippines. [PDF]

F1000Res, 2023
Diestro D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

English as a lingua franca in academic publishing: using round-trip translation to estimate linguistic revision difficulty [PDF]

In questo articolo viene presentato un metodo innovativo per stimare la difficoltà di revisione di testi accademici da pubblicare in inglese come lingua franca, allo scopo di ottimizzare il lavoro e le performance dei revisori.
Federico Garcea, Silvia Bernardini, Novella Tedesco   +2 more
core   +1 more source

30 Years of Enamel Matrix Derivative (EMD): Biological Foundations and Systematic Review With Meta‐Analyses Across Multiple Clinical Indications

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
EMD is one of the few biological agents with human histologic evidence supporting periodontal regeneration. This is reflected in improved clinical outcomes when used in regenerative surgery for intrabony defects. Despite its biological plausibility for broader therapeutic applications, further high‐quality randomized clinical trials are needed to ...
Richard J. Miron, Nima Farshidfar, Yu‐Kang Tu, Chian‐Heng Su, Paras Ahmad, Nathan E. Estrin, Reinhard Gruber, Yoshinori Shirakata, Dieter D. Bosshardt, Mario Romandini, Anton Sculean   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

More than just non-professional translators: The public perception of Chinese fansubbers in an English as a Lingua Franca world

JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation
This study explores the public perception of Chinese fansubbers in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) world. The analysis draws from a survey gathering both quantitative and qualitative data from 327 respondents.
Bin Gao, Zhourong Shen
doaj   +1 more source

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source