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Dreaming and Living the Globalized World Through IELTS: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Test‐Takers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study investigated the lived experiences of 10 IELTS test‐takers from Bangladesh. It explored their motivations for taking the test as well as their test experiences during and after the test. It demonstrates how the participants sought to position themselves in the imagined community through renegotiating their identities to climb ...
Tazin Ahmed, M. Obaidul Hamid, Xiaofan Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFL teachers’ attitudes toward accent and culture in light of EIL: The case of Iranian public schools and private institutes

Cogent Education, 2018
The aim of the current study was twofold: examining the influence of contextual variations on EFL teachers’ attitudes toward accent and culture in the English as an international language (EIL) context and exploring reasons that shape teachers ...
Shahab Moradkhani, Ahmad Asakereh
doaj   +1 more source

EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 595-612, September 2026.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi, Christopher J. Jenks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

SERBIAN ENGLISH THROUGH THE LENS OF THE ELF RESEARCH PARADIGM

Filolog, 2023
Linguists around the world have been researching international English for a long time, forming three paradigms of thought and research – English as an International Language (EIL), World English (WE) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
Tamara P. Tošić
doaj   +1 more source

“I Had Dual Feelings”: (Re)Storying With a Rural South Korean English Teacher

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2144-2154, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes (or re‐stories) intrapersonal ideological tensions of a rural South Korean English teacher, Yeonghyeon1, as she negotiates competing discourses across local, national, and global scales within the context of a semi‐structured interview.
Ian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Segmentals weigh much more in comprehensibility than nuclear stress in read speech

Acta Psychologica
This study investigates the impact of segmental accuracy and nucleus placement on the comprehensibility of English as an International Language (EIL), with the aim of informing phonological norms and teaching models.
Jing Tang, Jiayong He
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation of English Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Global Englishes and Global Englishes Language Teaching in Relation to Their Academic Interests and Experiences With English as a Global Lingua Franca

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2795-2807, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates Japanese university students’ attitudes toward Global Englishes (GE) and Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT), focusing on how these attitudes are shaped by students’ academic interests and experiences using English as a lingua franca (ELF), both abroad and in domestic EFL contexts.
Natsuno Funada, Heath Rose
wiley   +1 more source

RUSSIAN CULTURE VIA ENGLISH

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2017
The paper addresses the issues related to the peculiarities of teaching a new course called Russian Culture via English to Linguistics majors within the M.A.
I L Lebedeva
doaj   +1 more source

What's in a Name? Global Englishes—An Umbrella Term to Address Silo Mentality or a Misunderstood Paradigm Reinforcing Silos?

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 24-48, March 2025.
Abstract In this article, I explore growing scholarship in various sub‐fields of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) that explore the use of English in an increasingly globalized and multilingual world. With different, yet overlapping, conceptual frameworks to guide research, scholarship in various fields provide a growing ...
Nicola Galloway
wiley   +1 more source

MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY OF MALAY- AND SWEDISH-ACCENTED ENGLISH: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
In using English as an international language (EIL), one important issue is mutual intelligibility among EIL speakers from different language backgrounds.
Hyeseung Jeong Jeong, Bosse Thorén, Juliana Othman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source