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Going Beyond the obvious in English for Legal Purposes [PDF]

, 2010
This paper deals with some of the problems and implications of Legal English being used as a lingua franca, especially when teaching legal English in courses for judges in various European ...
Campos-Pardillos, Miguel Ángel
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Investigation of English Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Global Englishes and Global Englishes Language Teaching in Relation to Their Academic Interests and Experiences With English as a Global Lingua Franca

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates Japanese university students’ attitudes toward Global Englishes (GE) and Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT), focusing on how these attitudes are shaped by students’ academic interests and experiences using English as a lingua franca (ELF), both abroad and in domestic EFL contexts.
Natsuno Funada, Heath Rose
wiley   +1 more source

Cuestionando y desestabilizando la hegemonía angloamericana y del inglés en geografía [PDF]

, 2003
Este artículo analiza el estatus hegemónico de la geografía angloamericana y el papel del idioma inglés como lingua franca del mundo académico. La primera mitad del artículo esboza brevemente el estatus hegemónico de la geografía angloamericana, las ...
Kitchin, Rob
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Equal access to community interpreting in Flanders: a matter of self-reflective decision making? [PDF]

, 2015
The central issue tackled by this article revolves around decision-making by public service institutions in respect of the uses and perceived effects of community interpreting and translation in Flanders (Belgium) and/or other resources of language ...
De Bisschop, Bert, Roels, Britt, Seghers, Marie, Slembrouck, Stef, Van Avermaet, Piet, Van Herreweghe, Mieke   +5 more
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Global Englishes Language Teaching Curriculum Innovation: Students’ Learning Experiences and Long‐Term Academic and Career Trajectories

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the global spread of English and the recent challenges to English major education, it is essential to explore the potential benefits of implementing Global Englishes in a discipline‐specific context. This qualitative study explored the learning experiences of eight female English major graduates who previously attended Global Englishes ...
Xiaowen (Serina) Xie, Jie Zheng, Fan Fang, Yifang Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT IMPROVING BUSINESS ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii "Constantin Brâncuşi" din Târgu Jiu: Seria Inginerie, 2019
This study aims at presenting a brief, yet comprehensive insight into one of the crucial aspects with which the Romanian economy is faced, especially as a member of the European Union and a ‗player‘ in the global market.
Călin Deneș, Valentin Grecu
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]

, 2012
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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L2‐Mediated Personal Competence as a Dimension of Identity Development Among International Students in Kazakhstan: A Mixed Methods Study

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
wiley   +1 more source

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work [PDF]

In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both ...
Catherine Durnell Cramton, Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Beyene   +2 more
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Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma [PDF]

, 2013
This article describes discursive processes by which inhabitants of the Congolese border town Goma attribute new indexical values to Lingala, a language exogenous to the area of which most Goma inhabitants only possess limited knowledge.
Büscher, Karen, D'hondt, Sigurd, Meeuwis, Michael   +2 more
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