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Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University, 2023 This study investigates common communication needs encountered in an ELF academiccontext. The participants consisted of two Thai professors, fifteen Thai, and fifteen Cambodian students who studied in grade 12 and ...
Tanaporn Khamwan
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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English as a lingua franca vs. interpreting: battleground or peaceful coexistence? [PDF]
, 2010 The article addresses the contentious issue of the spread of English as a lingua franca in a number of domains – a trend that is not viewed very favourably by many interpreting professionals.
Reithofer, Karin
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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Virtual Exchange as a Strategy to Foster Global Learning and Internationalization of the Curriculum
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This chapter describes the constitution and development of one of the first institutional initiatives for implementing a virtual exchange program in a Higher Education Institution in Brazil. The focus is on the description and discussion of the role of stakeholders in fostering and supporting virtual exchange activities, as well as examples of
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Nursing Students' Perceptions of English as A Lingua Franca
JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2022 Provoked by the Faculty of Nursing’s graduate career prospective, ‘nurse in international nursing services’, this study aimed to investigate the Englishes nursing students were in favour of and the Englishes they needed for their future career and ...
Komilie Situmorang, Sandra Sembel
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Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a Lingua Franca
, 2015 In the relatively few years since empirical research into English as a Lingua Franca began being conducted more widely, the field has developed and expanded remarkably, and in myriad ways. In particular, researchers have explored ELF from the perspective
Jenkins, Jennifer
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Making the Case for Promoting English as Europe’s Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2014 The 28 European Union member states have 24 different official languages. While the EU seeks homogenisation and convergence of the member states in many policy areas this does not apply to its language policy.
Gerhards, Jürgen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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English in the Urban Linguistic Landscape from Lingua Franca to Lingua Symbol [PDF]
, 2016 The main aim of this article is to offer a brief overview of various recent studies that have dealt with multilingualism in the urban linguistic landscape (according to Landry/Bourhis), in Europe and in the rest of the world, with special emphasis on the
FERRAROTTI, LAURA
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