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Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020 The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks ...
Zia Tajeddin, Maryam Pakzadian
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Developing a Textbook Evaluation Scheme for the Expanding Circle [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 Among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom where
Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo
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Englishes in the Expanding Circle: Focus on Asia
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 In Kachrus original classification, the countries of the Expanding Circle were those where English was learned primarily as a foreign language in schools. English did not play an institutional role within the country.
Andy Kirkpatrick
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English as a Lingua Franca from an applied linguistics perspective: In the context of Japan
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 For the past two decades, the concept of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has been a topic of much debate among researchers in the global use of English, including those involved in English language teaching (ELT).
Nobuyuki Hino
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Expanding and outer circle cultural content in English coursebooks commonly used in Serbia
Inovacije u Nastavi, 2018 The three core culture areas commonly covered by modern coursebooks are Inner Circle cultures (culture of countries where English is the first or dominant language), Outer Circle cultures (post-colonial countries where English plays a major role) and ...
Nenad M. Tomović, Maja M. Aleksić
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Special Issue: The Relevance of Terms like ESL and EFL in a Linguistically Complex World [PDF]
International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2021 For a long time, ELT (‘English language teaching’) scholars and practitioners have used terms like ‘ESL’ (‘English as a second language’) and ‘EFL’ (‘English as a foreign language’) unquestioningly to describe the English used by people outside the so ...
Jock Wong
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English in the Russian-based recruitment discourse
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 The paper addresses the use of English in the Russian-based recruitment discourse. Language is viewed through the prism of the sociolinguistics of globalization and understood as a set of mobile trans-locally operative resources used to achieve specific ...
Elena S. Gritsenko, Anastasia V. Alikina
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Cultural Elements in EFL Course Books
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2016 Language echoes cultural values, norms and many other features of a society, and is regarded as an inseparable part of such characteristics. Despite the fact that values and features of a society may be kept apart from language in language education ...
Ömer Gökhan ULUM, Erdoğan BADA
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Circle-U-Net: An Efficient Architecture for Semantic Segmentation
Algorithms, 2021 State-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods rely too much on complicated deep networks and thus cannot train efficiently. This paper introduces a novel Circle-U-Net architecture that exceeds the original U-Net on several standards.
Feng Sun +4 more
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Cogent Education, 2016 Despite the great body of work examining the cultural content of the international and local ELT textbooks, the cultural content and elements of the ELT textbooks in the inner, outer, and expanding circle countries have seldom been reported.
Naser Rashidi, Hussein Meihami
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