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FAMILIAR ISSUES FROM A WORLD ENGLISHES PERSPECTIVE

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016
This paper does not introduce new “issues”, “positions” or “topics” but instead suggests a fresh perspective on some classic themes in English Language Teaching (ELT). The fresh perspective is that provided by the concept of world Englishes.
E Smith Larry
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Teacher language awareness and world Englishes – where (corpus) linguistics, digital literacy and teacher training meet

open access: yesCrossroads, 2019
In the rapidly changing world of today, the role of English as a global language is not to be left unnoticed in pre-service teacher training. Teacher language awareness, encompassing knowledge of language, knowledge about language and knowledge of ...
Jarosław Krajka
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World English, Euro-English, Nordic English? [PDF]

open access: yesEnglish Today, 2003
A discussion of the kinds of English emerging in the world at large and in the European Union. In recent years, the world's Anglophone media, in the company of a range of other observers, have routinely been calling English ‘the world's lingua franca’. As a result, the phrase is now something of a cliché.
openaire   +1 more source

IT’S ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO THE FIRST...(The Foreword to a recent article of Larry Smith)

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016
Written in the genre of preface, this introductory article is a metatext to the paper by Larry Smith - one of the founders of World Englishes Paradigm. The goal is to introduce to the readers all necessary information about L.
Z G Proshina
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The intelligibility of South Asian Englishes to Chinese pre-service English teachers: implications for sustainable language education

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
In light of the growing need for effective communication across English varieties, this study examines the intelligibility of three South Asian Englishes—Indian, Pakistani, and Nepali English—among Chinese pre-service English teachers.
Liu Jie, Jie Zeng
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New perspectives on language and gender: Linguistic prescription and compliance in call centres [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite a shift to service-based economies, male-dominated, high-status workplaces have been the predominant focus of research into language and gender in the workplace.
Anna Kristina Hultgren   +23 more
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Language testing and international intelligibility : a Hong Kong case study

open access: yes, 2013
A central issue in language testing is the choice of norms, and the need to reconcile notions of “standard” English with local language norms and features.
SEWELL, Andrew
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Innovation at the Grammar-lexis Intersection in World Englishes1

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2019
It has often been claimed that the English complementation system lies at the intersection of grammar and lexis, an area where, in the process of nativization in new varieties of English, innovation and change commonly occur (Olavarría de Ersson and ...
Raquel P. Romasanta
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Exploring Male and Female Iranian EFL Learners’ Attitude towards Native and Non-native Varieties of English [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics, 2015
This study investigated whether Iranian EFL learners are aware of different varieties of English spoken throughout the world and whether they have tendency towards a particular variety of English.
Hoda Talebi Habib Abadi   +1 more
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