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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
wiley   +1 more source

Similarities (and Differences) in the Learning Patterns of Single-Word Reading of an Alphabetic Orthography in Monolingual and Bilingual Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sci
Smith G   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward Culturally Sustaining Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Linguistic, Cultural, and Racial Ideologies Across Earlier and Revised Editions

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) textbooks published by major Korean universities and widely used around the world. Using critical discourse analysis and a culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) perspective, this article analyzes how earlier and revised textbooks represent language, culture, and race, and ...
Eunae Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
wiley   +1 more source

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