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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The increasing trend of early English education has promoted the rapid growth of English private tutoring (EPT) for children, which garners attention in research as a global educational phenomenon. In China, EPT for children experienced a fervent expansion under neoliberalism.
Chun Zeng, Kevin Wai‐Ho Yung
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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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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Despite decades of curricular change and the introduction of language pedagogies emphasising meaning and communication, teachers of English in Chilean schools still tend to favour traditional methods and focus largely on discrete language. Using data from stimulated recalls, interviews and observations with preservice teachers, interviews with
Luis Carabantes
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Manually Annotated Spelling Error Corpus for Amharic [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper presents a manually annotated spelling error corpus for Amharic, lingua franca in Ethiopia. The corpus is designed to be used for the evaluation of spelling error detection and correction. The misspellings are tagged as non-word and real-word errors.
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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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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the construction of language ideologies and language learning within English‐language education in a Language Introduction Program (LIP) in Sweden. LIP is an individual transitional program for newly arrived migrant students that seeks to quickly transition adolescents into further education or the job market.
Jenny Bergström +2 more
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All in a day’s work ... or, ELF in a day’s work: meeting the changing needs of learners and users of English in Higher Education [PDF]
, 2011 English as a lingua franca (ELF) has been described as “… the fastest-growing and at the same time the least recognised function of English in the world.” (Mauranen 2009).
Pullin, Patricia
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ELF-awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT Policies in Portugal [PDF]
, 2020 This study attempts to examine to what extent the concepts of Intercultural Communicative Competence and English as a Lingua Franca are theoretically and practically formulated in some of the most recently implemented European and Portuguese English ...
Guerra, Luis
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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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ALIST: Associative Logic for Inference, Storage and Transfer. A Lingua Franca for Inference on the Web [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Recent developments in support for constructing knowledge graphs have led to a rapid rise in their creation both on the Web and within organisations. Added to existing sources of data, including relational databases, APIs, etc., there is a strong demand for techniques to query these diverse sources of knowledge.
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