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Language and Culture in International Legal Communication [PDF]

open access: yes
In the contemporary business world, partners belonging to different nations, and hence different cultures, conduct business operations in either the language of one of the parties involved or in a third, neutral language, serving as lingua franca.
Alenka Kocbek
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring ‘English’ in an EMI nursing program: Native English varieties, ELF, and translingual practices

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
English Medium Instruction (EMI) has been implemented globally as a strategy for the internationalization of Higher Education Institutions to promote global competence and mobility.
Komilie Situmorang, Santa Maya Pramusita
doaj   +1 more source

Erasmus students using English as a "lingua franca": does study abroad in a non-English-speaking country improve L2 English? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
There is a lack of research on the impact of study abroad (SA) on the development of L2 English when students study in non-anglophone countries. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by examining 39 Catalan/Spanish students who, as part of an ...
Arnó Macià, Elisabet   +2 more
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Dimensions of Language Awareness of Multilingual Migrant Adolescents – A Means to Enhance Epistemic Diversity in the Classroom

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingualism is very prevalent in German schools. However, the German school system does little justice to this fact and persists in a monolingual habitus. This appears problematic not only in respect to educational equity, but it also undermines holistic approaches to learning.
Nora von Dewitz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

STUDIES ON ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN BRAZIL (2005-2012): A QUALITATIVE METASYNTHESIS

open access: yesSignum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014
This work aims at presenting an overview of studies focusing on English as a global lingua franca published in Brazil between 2005-2012. The following sources were scrutinized: CAPES Database of Theses, Scholar Google and highly qualified Brazilian ...
Marcella BORDINI, Telma GIMENEZ
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Implications of the Course of Study Reforms on English Language Teaching in Japanese Secondary Schools: Toward Teaching English as an International Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many universities in Japan have been offering the teaching certificate programs to train highly qualified teachers. Even though graduate schools have set up programs for more disciplinary courses for English language teaching (ELT), few have been ...
Fujieda, Yutaka
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Self‐Consumption Translation: Exploring Interlingual Translation Within Multilingual (mainland) China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interlingual translation, as defined by Roman Jakobson, refers to the transfer of meaning between languages. However, this concept has often been conflated with linguistic shifts between distinct cultures and nation‐states. To challenge this misconception, I propose the concept of self‐consumption translation (SCT), a subfield of interlingual ...
Bilin (Belen) Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Типологія варіантів сучасної англійської мови в соціальній комунікації [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
(uk) У статті узагальнено чинні моделі географічної дисперсії сучасної англійської мови, виокремлено й схарактеризовано варіанти її існування. Особливу увагу приділено характеристиці англійської мови яклінгва франка.(en) This paper presents a survey of ...
Паращук, Валентина Юліївна
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