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Hands Back, Hands Forward: Expanding the Circle of Indigenous Storyworkers
Occasional Paper Series, 2023 An Indigenous teaching that has guided my life, both professionally and personally, comes from Tsimilano, Elder Dr. Vincent Stogan of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). 2 He was a leader, teacher, and mentor to many.
Jo-Ann Archibald
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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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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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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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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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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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Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Student stereotyping of non-native English-speaking teachers is a common focus of research and there is a paucity of studies targeting trilingual students of multicultural backgrounds.
Minmin Yang +2 more
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Multicultural Representation in Global Language Textbook Used by Indonesian EFL Learners
Journal of Innovation in Educational and Cultural Research, 2023 Most previous studies find that global textbooks for EFL learners are still unbalanced and contain multicultural values. At the same time, students have to be able to communicate with people from different cultures.
Reffi Sabillawati, Kristian Adi Putra
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