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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

The HCMV‐encoded miR‐UL36‐3p promotes angiogenesis of endothelial cells by downregulating FOXO3

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This illustration shows the role of hcmv‐miR‐UL36‐3p in endothelial cell angiogenesis. During productive infection, endothelial cells express HCMV‐encoded miRNAs. Viral hcmv‐miR‐UL36‐3p promotes endothelial cell proliferation, migration, and capillary tube formation by directly targeting and downregulating FOXO3. The pro‐angiogenic activity of hcmv‐miR‐
Chen Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese speakers' attitudes towards their own English: ELF or Interlanguage

open access: yes, 2014
The globalisation of English has motivated the research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the debate concerning non-native English speakers’ (NNESs’) own English.
Wang, Ying
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On Northern Irish English: A Phonological and Morphosyntactic Description [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The present paper reviews the phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the Northern Irish English (NIrE) variety. NIrE is the dialect of English spoken within the region of Northern Ireland, which officially belongs to the United Kingdom.
Beristain Murillo, Ander
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English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper claims that underlying the naturalisation of teaching and learning of English in the Malaysian education system are ideological pressures and political dogmas, often emerging from colonial, urban/rural and even local ethnic conflicts and ...
Hazita Azman,
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English as an Asian Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Uncovering the sociopolitical situatedness of accents in the world Englishes paradigm

open access: yes, 2012
Despite a call for liberal acceptance of multiple standards of spoken English in some recent World Englishes discussions, English spoken with a non-native accent continues to be stigmatized, and attempts to eliminate one’s native accent for social and professional advancements have continued to shape and constitute the ESL/EFL speaker’s ethnic and ...
Lin, AMY, Luk, JCM
openaire   +1 more source

Visual Hypersensitivity as a Transdiagnostic Marker of Surgical Pain Response in Arthritis and Chronic Pain Syndromes

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Nociplastic pain is pain primarily driven by the central nervous system and, unlike nociceptive pain conditions, is thought to be refractory to peripherally directed therapies. Nociplastic pain is also associated with hypersensitivity to painful and other sensory stimuli (such as visual stimuli). Nonpainful sensory measures have not been well
Noah Waller   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring ‘unknown worlds’: The lives and careers of non-native speaking teachers of English in Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It is a decade since Richards remarked that “How the teacher believes, thinks, acts and reacts is central to educational endeavour, but about the EFL (English as a foreign language) language teacher we know almost nothing” (1997:243), going on to suggest
Hayes, David
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