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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming in the Research: A Han Chinese Tauiwi Account of Evolving Positionality in Māori Research Contexts

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2026.
Positionality statements can identify a researcher's social and cultural location, but they may reveal little about how positional understanding develops through research relationships or affects research conduct. This paper presents a reflexive narrative account of my experience as a Han Chinese adult migrant and tauiwi (non‐Māori) researcher working ...
Xiaoliang Niu
wiley   +1 more source

Agency in Academic Career Development Within Neoliberalism: Chinese as an Additional Language Teachers' Trajectories

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The pursuit of academic careers within neoliberal higher education is increasingly characterised as uncertain, insecure and fragmented. Previous studies have predominantly depicted the challenges and tensions experienced by language teachers in sustaining their career development. However, there remains a lack of research on how career agency (
Luyao (Elva) Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resonance and Silence: English Teacher Agency in a Resource‐Constrained Professional Learning Community in China

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are widely promoted for teacher learning and agency, yet their operation in resource‐constrained settings may reproduce institutional tensions. Using Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory, this 8‐month longitudinal case study of a Senior‐One English PLC in western Inner Mongolia, China, draws on 51 ...
Meng Jin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Professional Development Fails: EFL Academics Becoming Researchers Under Conditions of Institutional Stratification in Chinese Higher Education

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Professional development is widely promoted as a strategy for enhancing the research capacity of EFL academics in higher education. However, existing research has paid less attention to the disciplinary knowledge and research practices through which research competence is developed. This study examines professional learning under conditions of
Zongqiang Li
wiley   +1 more source

The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese

open access: yesJournal of Phonetics, 1993
openaire   +1 more source

Chinese Doctoral Students' Conceptions of Research in Applied Linguistics: A Sociocultural Perspective

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Although Conceptions of Research (CoR) fundamentally shape doctoral students' research practices, longitudinal understandings of how early‐stage doctoral students dynamically construct and develop their CoR remain scarce. Grounded in sociocultural theory (SCT), this qualitative case study examined the CoR development of two Chinese doctoral ...
Zezhi Hui, Haowei Luo, Meihua Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Reading Conversations: Understanding and Fostering Children's Reading Engagement

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 3, November/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Reading engagement is a key factor in children's literacy development, yet it often receives limited attention in classroom practice. Linguistically diverse learners may face added challenges when formal reading education and assessment focus only on the language(s) of schooling.
Charlie Robinson‐Jones   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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