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Entangled Discourses and Realities of English: Japanese Undergraduates’ Everyday Online and Offline Language Experiences

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

Cool and safe walks: heat stress threshold for domestic dogs living in hot and sunny regions. [PDF]

Int J Biometeorol
do Nascimento PV, Saraiva EP, Veríssimo TNS, Leite JHGM, Rola LD, Sant'Anna AC, Pereira WE, Fonsêca VFC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global Interns or Learners of Japanese?: American Interns’ Negotiation of Positioning Across Orders of Indexicality in Japanese Workplaces

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid Japan's internationalization efforts, foreign employees are positioned as global English‐speaking talent while simultaneously facing expectations to conform to Japanese linguacultural norms. This study examines how such tensions are negotiated through the narratives of two interns—one African American and one Vietnamese American—in ...
Hae Ree Jun
wiley   +1 more source

Acute Effect of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Peripheral Tissue Oxygenation Behavior in Individuals With COPD: A Randomized Crossover Study. [PDF]

Physiother Res Int
Borges NMDS, Lima DT, Morais ABA, Tenório LNFC, Vieira ST, Carneiro HMLO, Freitas AL, Silva DFS, Silva ED, Paiva MAOS, Silva JVBD, Guedes KP, Gama TO, Fernandes ATDNSF, Azevedo IG, Morais PSA, Pereira DAG, Pedrosa R, Lima JHM, França EET.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Language Maintenance Following International Mobility: A Longitudinal Study of Korean Foreign Language Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Second language acquisition research has largely emphasized language development, often overlooking language maintenance following international mobility. Addressing this gap, the present longitudinal mixed‐methods study examined oral proficiency maintenance among foreign language (FL) learners 9 months after returning from residence abroad ...
Yunjung (Yunie) Ku
wiley   +1 more source

<i>Coxiella burnetii</i> (Q fever) exposure in recycling, non-recycling workers and dogs in a major urban area of Brazil. [PDF]

Front Public Health
de Souza Barbosa AB, França DA, Machado CD, Silito IS, Kmetiuk LB, Labruna MB, Biondo AW.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenging the Monolith: Ambivalence, the Native‐Speaker Ideal and Teacher Preparation in Multilingual South Africa

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the ambivalence of final‐year TESOL pre‐service teachers towards a non‐native‐speaking (NNS) lecturer within a historically white South African university. The research involved twelve student teachers being prepared to teach English as either a home language or a first additional language to high school learners in the ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: On the integrative taxonomy of Trichophoromyia Barretto, 1962 and its relationship with Nyssomyia Barretto, 1962 (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae): species delimitation, phylogeny, genus and subgenus description. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Rodrigues BL, Vasconcelos Dos Santos T, Brilhante AF, de Souza Pinto I, Rocha EG, Pereira Júnior AM, da Silva Costa G, de França KP, de Souza Cavalcante K, Shimabukuro PHF, Medeiros JF, Galati EAB.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Maintaining Legitimacy in Global Labor Governance: Legitimation Politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes how industrial relations actors maintain legitimacy in global labor governance by investigating the legitimation politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Drawing on the concept of legitimacy tests, we identify three strategies that the workers' and employers' groups at the ILO have deployed to maintain ...
Huw Thomas, Vicente Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Melatonin and Quercetin Co-Treatment Attenuates Hepatic Damage in Diabetic Rats by Mitigating Oxidative Stress and Inflammation. [PDF]

J Biochem Mol Toxicol
Alves ÉR, Silva JGMD, Melo IMF, Santos LCDS, França MMS, Neto CL, Medina VB, Souza FAL, Vieira LD, Teixeira ÁAC, Teixeira VW.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source