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English as an Asian Language [PDF]
, 1997 This paper outlines the dimensions of Asia's English, which constitutes a world of its own in linguistic, cultural, interactional, ideological, and political terms.
Kachru, Braj B.
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Queer Bodies, Queer Lives in China English Contact Literature
Open Linguistics, 2018 Ha Jin and his works have contributed significantly to world Englishes knowledge, both through direct scholarly engagement with contact literatures and through the linguistic creativity exhibited in his works of fiction (Jin 2010).
Paiz Joshua M. +4 more
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Exploring the functionality of English in China: A tale of two cities
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 The world of English has been witnessing shifts and turns over the last half century, and a major one is a paradigm shift from a monolithic English to pluricentric Englishes.
Zhichang Xu, Danya Zhang
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Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reports the first empirical study to date that sought to examine the native speaker orientation among middle school EFL students in Japan. To this end, this preliminary study measured their language attitudes in this respect addressing age ...
Saito, Akihiro
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The External-and-Internal-Forces Model applied to the Japan context
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 This article considers the Buschfeld-Kautzsch EIF (External and Internal Forces) model from the perspective of the Japan context. The model was developed as an enhancement to Schneiders Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes, which is itself an ...
James D’Angelo, Saya Ike
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Traveling Yellow Peril: Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan's English Teaching Industry [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary U.S. white migrants working in Japan long-term as English teachers find themselves in an increasingly precarious labor market. When reacting to industry flexibilization, the U.S.
Owens, Christina D.
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West African English in Digital Discourse [PDF]
, 2013 This paper applies sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical approaches to examine the features of West African English (WAE) in digital discourse. Data comprises 23,374 posts and responses from some popular social and political online forums hosted by ...
Chiluwa, Innocent
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Journal of Education, Management and Development StudiesThis mixed-method approach of the study explores the learning outcomes, topics, and assessment methods of Purposive Communication instructional materials in the World Englishes context.
Marlon Pontillas
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English in South Asia and Pedagogical Implications [PDF]
, 2014 English at present maintains a significant role as a second or foreign language in the region of South Asia as well as globally. In a discussion of this topic, it is important to explore a brief history of the expansion of English and its origins in ...
Ehret, Brittany R
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, 2005 A report on two prominent dialectal variables in England. Using rather informally collected data, The author looks here at two well-known variables in the English of England: first, whether there is a short or long vowel in words such as grass and bath ...
Gupta, A.F.
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