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English as a Lingua Franca in Portugal: What students want, what teachers teach [PDF]

, 2012
This study seeks to show how Portuguese students and teachers view learning and using English today and how their attitudes can influence or be influenced by ELT policies and practices. It made use of two semi-structured questionnaires, one for students (
Guerra, Luis
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Uncovering the sociopolitical situatedness of accents in the world Englishes paradigm

, 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
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EFL and/vs. ESL? A multi-level regression modeling perspective on bridging the paradigm gap [PDF]

The study of learner language and of indigenized varieties are growing areas of English-language corpus-linguistic research, which are shaped by two current trends: First, the recognition that more rigorous methodological approaches are urgently needed ...
Ra C. Deshors, Stefan Th. Gries
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NATIVE-LIKE ACCENT: A MYTH OR A GOAL? A STUDY ON LEARNER PREFERENCES FOR ENGLISH ACCENTS [PDF]

, 2016
the issue of English as an International Language (EIL) has been a long debate in contemporary English language teaching (Holliday, 2005). As an international language, a wide variety of Englishes is developed in different parts of the world.
Harendita, Monica Ella
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NNESTs V.s. NESTs: Why Domestic English Teachers Should Not Worry About Their Foreign Counterparts [PDF]

, 2015
Not few renowned English courses have hired foreign English teachers to gain more learners, so do formal schools or universities. Some of the teachers are hired professionally, and some are volunteers as a part of an agreement between the institution and
Amalia, S. D. (Syahara)
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Book Review Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations [PDF]

, 2016
This book unveils the vital notion of translingual practice, the premise of which is the dexterity of multilingual speakers and writers to negotiate language differences so as to assert their agency and positionality.
Sugiharto, S. (Setiono)
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Chinese speakers' attitudes towards their own English: ELF or Interlanguage

, 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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Global English and World Englishes Paradigms in a Japanese classroom

Global English and World Englishes Paradigms in a Japanese classroom
application/pdf The global prevalence of English language is interpreted through two conflicting views: one being a Global English paradigm which, it is said, oppresses non-native English speakers (Phillipson, 1992); and the other, the World Englishes paradigm, in which speakers liberate themselves from binding linguistic norms by adhering to their own
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Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: impacts of language education in China

This paper sets out to investigate Chinese university students’ ELF awareness, which is conceptualised with regards to language education. The study, based on 24 semi- structured interviews, demonstrates that Chinese university students are still framing
Wang, Ying
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Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Toward a Computational Dialectology. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2019
Dunn J.
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