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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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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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Learning Affordances in Integrating Content and English as a Lingua Franca (‘ICELF’): on an Implicit Approach to English Medium Teaching [PDF]
, 2013 This contribution focuses on classroom discourse, and student evaluations thereof, in a specific tertiary EMT (English-medium teaching) setting.
Smit, Ute
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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ENGLISH AS А LINGUA FRANCA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2016 The article investigates the English language, functioning as a lingua franca, in a modern multicultural and polyethnic universe in cross-cultural communication across the extrapolation of the secondary varieties of the given lingual system.
О. В. Домніч
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English as a lingua franca: an overview: El inglés como lengua franca: una visión general [PDF]
In the various fields of communication, there is a need to use a common language that allows effective relationships to be established between speakers of different mother tongues, where English could be the ideal resource for being used globally and ...
Barcia Moreira, Marlon Rubén +5 more
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
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Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reports the first empirical study to date that sought to examine the native speaker orientation among middle school EFL students in Japan. To this end, this preliminary study measured their language attitudes in this respect addressing age ...
Saito, Akihiro
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English as "Lingua Franca" and the Internationalization of Academe [PDF]
International Higher Education, 2015 English has become the major language of scientific communication, and to a lesser extent, teaching worldwide. Using data from a international study of the academic profession, this article discusses some of the themes, positive and negative, of the role of "global English.
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Not Your Cup of Tea? : An exploration of attitudes towards English as a lingua franca in Europe's cultural sector. [PDF]
, 2013 Over the past two decades, English has undeniably become the lingua franca of Europe, making it the language of choice for intercultural exchange between speakers of different native languages.
Payne, Victoria Rachel
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