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Towards a (Painful?) Paradigm Shift: Language Teachers and the Notion of ‘Error’
This paper examines the relationship between language teachers and the errors made by their students. Traditionally, errors reflect a deviation from a standard, which is a described or imagined standard form of linguistic behavior, and teachers are the ...
David Newbold
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This study investigates Taiwanese university students’ experience of English use, aims of learning English and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF). The notion of ELF has been researched in the field of English language teaching.
Wen-Hsing Luo
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My core postulate is that there is a widening chasm between small islands of privileged middle-class learners of EFL across the developing world, the EFL haves – and the masses of working-class and ordinary learners, often ‘low achievers’ in school ...
Bill Templer
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Making English a New Latin [PDF]
The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success.
Scheuer, Sylwia
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English is the most used lingua franca and its permeation is mainly through education sector. This expansion is reflected through the display of English coexisting with other languages in education sites.
Yustika Wahyu Riani +3 more
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ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PEDAGOGY AND ASSESSMENT
The English language functions as a global language that facilitates communication among people of different lingua-cultures. This background leads to the question of whether the traditional language assessment still fulfils the needs of the majority of
Fan (Gabriel) Fang
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English as a Lingua Franca: Perspectives from International MA TESOL Students in the United States
English learning and teaching have taken many forms in the last years. It is studied as a foreign language and a second language, and with specific purposes in technical fields of knowledge.
M. Jaramillo +2 more
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Studies of children’s narratives have shown that selecting appropriate forms to reintroduce a referent compared to retaining a referent is challenging because it requires the integration of different accessibility features.
Satomi Mishina-Mori +2 more
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The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape in Slovenia
The issue of visible written language used in Slovene public spaces is addressed. This is rapidly changing under the influence of English as the lingua franca of today.
Nada Šabec
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This study aims to examine whether a crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is exerted on the referring expressions of the spoken narratives of Japanese–English bilingual children in different discourse contexts.
Satomi Mishina-Mori +3 more
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