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Expanding Circles within the Outer Circle: The rural Kisii in Kenya

World Englishes, 2009
ABSTRACT:  This paper evaluates a range of factors that have contributed to the limited spread of English to rural Kisii, Kenya, making the presence of English in this non‐urban context fall closer to an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or Expanding Circle continuum than to the expected English as a Second Language (ESL) context.
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Facilitating the Outer Circle

2023
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1. Inner Circle, Outer Circle

1989
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6 The Outer Circle

1987
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The Outer Circle

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Outer Circles

2007
We live in a three-dimensional space; what sort of space is it? Can we build it from simple geometric objects? The answers to such questions have been found in the last 30 years, and Outer Circles describes the basic mathematics needed for those answers as well as making clear the grand design of the subject of hyperbolic manifolds as a whole.
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The ‘Outer Circle’ as a role model for the ‘Expanding Circle’

English Today, 2011
The post-World War II emergence of the linguistic phenomenon called ‘World English’ has given rise to seemingly endless discussion and much speculation among scholars and the lay public alike. The topics of discussion range from horrified exclamations at the mysterious apparition (like Horatio's ‘Look my Lord it comes!
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Outer and expanding circle Englishes

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2015
The classification of English as a native (ENL), second (ESL) and foreign (EFL) language is traditionally mapped onto Kachru’s (1985) Inner, Outer and Expanding circles, respectively. This paper addresses the divide upheld between these different varietal types.
Edwards, Alison, Laporte, Samantha
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Englishes in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A comparative study

World Englishes, 2012
ABSTRACT:  The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of sociolinguistic ...
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Redefining Kachru's ‘Outer Circle’ of English

English Today, 1998
A re-examination of a widely-established view of how English works in the ...
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