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Referent Reintroduction in the Japanese Narratives of Bilingual Children: The Relationship Between Referent Accessibility and Explicitness

Languages
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, Yuri Jody Yujobo, Yuki Nakano   +2 more
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The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape in Slovenia

ELOPE, 2022
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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Is Referent Reintroduction More Vulnerable to Crosslinguistic Influence? An Analysis of Referential Choice among Japanese–English Bilingual Children

Languages
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, Yuki Nakano, Yuri Jody Yujobo, Yumiko Kawanishi   +3 more
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Inglês como língua franca: desenvolvimentos recentes

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
Em face da atual posição do inglês como uma língua franca global, este artigo tem como principal objetivo discutir os desenvolvimentos recentes dessa área, tomando como base os trabalhos apresentados durante a 7th International Conference on English as a
Telma Gimenez, Michele Salles El Kadri, Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo, Domingos Sávio Pimentel Siqueira, Lucielen Porfirio   +4 more
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THAI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELF IN CLASSROOM CONTEXTS: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY

ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2021
English has long acted as a powerful language in the world since it is spoken by various people from diverse cultural backgrounds and places around the globe. As a number of non-native speakers (NNSs) are rapidly growing, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
Sumit Choemue, Retno Muljani
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How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

An Investigation of Communication Needs Experienced by Non-native Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca Academic Context

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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The doctoral journey as decolonial praxis: Self‐formation of Global South students in UK higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research concerning Global South doctoral students in the United Kingdom has mainly situated their experiences within adaptationist paradigms, emphasising cultural adjustment and assimilation into Western academic norms. Such studies often depict students as passive recipients, overlooking their agency and the transformative potential
Peng Zhang, Hao Wu, Enze Guo, Amanda McCrory   +3 more
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Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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