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TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how two pre‐service English teachers in Türkiye navigate the racialized (whiteness‐Europeanness‐indexed) and marketized legitimacy regimes of the private English language teaching sector. Drawing on a language teacher identity lens and a political economy account of accent commodification, we analyze the contrasting ...
Onur Özkaynak, Peter Sayer
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The Case for Quantitative Frameworks in Assessing Racial and Ethnic Representation in ELT Materials
TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This position paper addresses a critical methodological gap in research on racial and ethnic representation in English Language Teaching (ELT) materials. Despite decades of criticism regarding diversity in textbooks, researchers have largely relied on qualitative assessments without establishing quantitative frameworks for measuring ...
Derek Hopper
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Holographic Gauge Mediation [PDF]
, 2009 We discuss gravitational backgrounds where supersymmetry is broken at the end of a warped throat, and the SUSY-breaking is transmitted to the Standard Model via gauginos which live in (part of) the bulk of the throat geometry.
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Studies in African Languages and CulturesThis study examines an aspect of linguistic globalization known as Englishisation (Kachru 1994; Boussebaa & Brown 2016; Mensah 2021) by adopting the sociolinguistic approach to investigate the creative modifi cations of some Igbo indigenous names with ...
Onyebuchi Nwosu, Chidimma Ugomma Inyima
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Sustainability in Healthcare: The Role of Digital Technologies for Improving Patient Engagement
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 2227-2278, July 2026.ABSTRACT Sustainability in healthcare is getting considerable research attention as systems worldwide tend to balance environmental, social, and economic factors. In this context, digital technologies have demonstrated significant potential to enhance engagement among different consumer groups across various industries.
Francesco Schiavone +4 more
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 209-218, June 2026.Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
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RAPE CASES: GENRE AND RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF CONTROVERSIAL MALAYSIAN LEGAL JUDGEMENTS
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2016 Kachru and Smith (2008) emphasize that effectual communication in the context in which different varieties of world English are used, entails awareness of the varieties in use and their cultural, social, and ideational functions.
Maya Khemlani David +2 more
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The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 309-322, June 2026.Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
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α′ corrections to KPV: an uplifting story
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 In earlier work, the effect of α′2 curvature corrections on the NS5-brane responsible for the decay of anti-D3-branes in the set-up of Kachru, Pearson, and Verlinde (KPV) was considered. We extend this analysis to include all known α′2 corrections to the
Simon Schreyer, Victoria Venken
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Braj B. Kachru's scholarly publications: A bibliography [PDF]
World Englishes, 2019 AbstractAlthough best known for his work on world Englishes, Braj Kachru was a truly original thinker, whose academic writings included influential publications on English linguistics, Indian languages, but much else besides, including applied linguistics, bilingualism and multilingualism, code‐mixing and switching, cross‐cultural communication ...
Bolton, Kingsley +2 more
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