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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Second language (L2) grit, a noncognitive ability that underlies the pursuit of language goals, has attracted growing scholarly attention. However, the grit–goal relationship—including why certain goals are set and how grittiness relates to their pursuit—remains underexplored, as L2 grit has largely been examined in relation to researcher ...
Hitoshi Mikami
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'McLengua': la identidad del inglés como problemática de la traducción actual
Forma y Función, 2001 En el contexto de dos fuerzas opuestas que dominan el mundo en la actualidad, la tribalización por un lado y la globalización por el otro, la autora examina las funciones del inglés como lingua franca.
Mary Snell-Hornby
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“Migratory Bird” Local Managers: English Proficiency, Social Identification, and Early Turnover
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local managers with high proficiency in English are valuable resources for foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, as they help mitigate language barriers between expatriate and local managers. However, such linguistically competent local managers often leave foreign subsidiaries within the first few years of employment.
Naoki Ando +2 more
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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOLThe edited volume Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology-Enhanced Learning edited by Pineda and Bosso (2023) is the first book ever to be published with a focus on the study of ...
Miriah Ralston
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Mutual face preservation among Asian speakers of English as a Lingua Franca
, 2014 This study identifies strategies used by speakers of ELF from Asia-Pacific countries for managing rapport in response to potentially face-threatening utterances in informal, non-hierarchical situations.
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Walkinshaw, Ian
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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ENGLISH AS А LINGUA FRANCA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2016 The article investigates the English language, functioning as a lingua franca, in a modern multicultural and polyethnic universe in cross-cultural communication across the extrapolation of the secondary varieties of the given lingual system.
О. В. Домніч
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.Diagnostic performance of recombinant peanut allergens for anaphylaxis risk in children. (A) Study population and clinical group. (B) Component‐specific IgE cut‐offs and associated odds ratios. (C) Forest plot of odds ratios for anaphylaxis. (D) Clinical interpretation of component‐specific IgE cut‐offs. ABSTRACT Aim Component‐resolved diagnostics (CRD)
Lisa Gazzolari +10 more
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