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National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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BSA Practice guidance: an overview of current management of auditory processing disorder (APD)
, 2011 Alles, R. +13 more
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Bridging the Gap in Brazilian Literacy: Kalulu Phonics Provides Gains in 1st Grade Reading
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, October/November/December 2025.In Brazil, constructivist methods—which promote whole‐word reading and reject phonics—were introduced during a time of positive educational expansion, aiming to bring schooling to all children. While this moment marked important social progress, the methods themselves lacked scientific support. Over time, phonics has been shown to be more effective for
Camilo Ernesto Subenko Olalla +7 more
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Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 67, Issue 5, September 2025.ABSTRACT Behavioral self‐regulation (SR) refers to a set of abilities that enable flexible, adaptive, and goal‐directed behavior, including the abilities known as hot (emotional regulation) and cool (e.g., controlled attention) executive functions (EFs).
Thiago F. A. França +4 more
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