English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca
Literacy Trek, 2021 English language has already become a world language while the world is changing and globalizing. It has been universally accepted in the academic field that English is now used as a lingua franca (ELF) in intercultural communication, and the lingua ...
Özdenur Ardıç Kıyak
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Exploring L1 Transfer in German Learners of English: High Front Vowels, High Back Vowels and the BED/BAD Distinction [PDF]
, 2010 Since the vowel systems of German and English are similar to some extent, German learners of English can be expected to transfer a considerable part of their German vowels to their L2 English.
Kautzsch, Alexander
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Virtual social media communities and their effects on World Englishes
Journal of Language and Cultural EducationThis paper investigates the impact of social media use and virtual communities on world Englishes. The term world Englishes refers to the different varieties of how English is communicated worldwide. Kachru (1985) described the language’s spread in terms
Almohawes Monera
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World Englishes: Changing the Paradigm of Linguistic Diversity in Global Academia [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses the ways that the publications of multilingual and non-native speakers of English are treated in academic publications. Using the World Englishes theory as a framework, it attempts to enumerate which overt and hidden advantages ...
Alogali, Azizah
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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2015 The article discusses the major principles of the World Englishes Paradigm as a sociolinguistic discipline and some ambiguous terms related to the global spread of English (world Englishes, International English, English as an International Language ...
Z G Proshina
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Anglo-American Studies for In-training Teachers [PDF]
, 2018 The students who take the class英米地域研究（Eibei Chiiki Kenkyuu）or Anglo-American Area Studies have a high interest in English and Western culture but few of them know anything about the origins of English or the events that resulted in English taking on the ...
Pennington, Wayne
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Embracing linguistic diversity: Global Englishes language teaching for anti-racist education
Frontiers in EducationRacial inequalities persist in education, impacting various aspects, including language teaching. Traditional English language education has often favored standard English, inadvertently marginalizing non-native English speakers and users of diverse ...
Deng Yunhua, Asep Budiman, Asep Budiman
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Russian English and what it is not
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 The arguments against the Expanding Circle (EC) Englishes being varieties in their own right are often provoked by terminological inaccuracies both in professional and folk-linguistic debate.
Alexandra A. Rivlina
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Implications of the Course of Study Reforms on English Language Teaching in Japanese Secondary Schools: Toward Teaching English as an International Language [PDF]
, 2018 Many universities in Japan have been offering the teaching certificate programs to train highly qualified teachers. Even though graduate schools have set up programs for more disciplinary courses for English language teaching (ELT), few have been ...
Fujieda, Yutaka
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Models and Targets for the Pronunciation of English in Vietnam and Sweden [PDF]
, 2009 This paper aims to account for the factors that lie behind the choice of models and targets for the pronunciation of English by learners of English in Vietnam and in Sweden. English is the first foreign language in both Vietnam and in Sweden.
Cunningham, Una
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