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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"World Englishes"”.
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SHRINE A world englishes approach to english language teaching
… designed to facilitate the integration of World Englishes into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching. Although linguistic research has long recognized the global diversification of English through processes such as language contact, migration, and sociopolitical change, these …
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Toward World Englishes Writing: Is It Idealism in the Introductory Composition Class?
… for international students within the World Englishes paradigm looks like. The study was conducted through questionnaires, blog entries, and interviews across three semesters in a public university in Indiana, America. In total, three introductory composition classes consisting of 41 …
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The impact of world Englishes on language assessment: rater attitude, rating behavior, and challenges
… designed to measure rater attitudes towards World Englishes. Validity arguments were formulated to guide two independent, yet related, studies based on mixed-methods approach and evaluate the claims and hypotheses set for the studies. In view of the lack of instruments measuring rater …
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Standard Language Ideology and World Englishes: A Multiple Narrative Case Study of Immigrant Educators’ Experiences in Canada
The spread of English and its users across the world has made imperative, an exploration of the language education histories and experiences of immigrant educators who use Outer Circle English varieties in Inner Circle countries. Using an interpretivist approach, this multiple narrative case study …
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Religious language: Its role in nativizing Caribbean English
Early studies of New World Englishes, including Caribbean English (CE), were primarily concerned with their genesis. With the emergence in the 1950's of generative linguistics, the focus of language study gradually shifted to more formal, rule-based descriptions. Subsequently, …
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Contact and Convergence of English in Korea
… to incorporate computer technology in studying world Englishes.
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Chinese Englishes: History, Contexts, and Texts
… dissertation contributes to our understanding of world Englishes in the global context and points to directions for research in Chinese varieties of English.
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Global Voices: A Student-Centered Guide to Teaching English as an International Language
<p>It is time for change in the world of English language teaching. The dominant view and practice of teaching English as a neutral, straight-forward act of imparting “objective” grammatical, phonological and semantic knowledge to passive students does not serve the interest or needs of the …
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An Autoethnography of a Novice ESL Teacher: Plato’s Cave and English Language Teaching in Japan
… daily life in the public schools and introduces World Englishes. Chapter 1 includes definitions and examples of autoethnography as well as the author’s background, which qualified him for employment in Japan. Chapter 2 is a literature review of research on varieties of English and how they are …
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Exploring linguistic "creativity" on social media: A case of selected posts by Namibians on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp
… language from “incorrect” forms of English as a World English. The qualitative research approach was appropriate for the study because it allowed an in-depth exploration of the various forms and strategies of linguistic innovation among Namibian social media users. The non-probability sampling …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
… global workplace and a complexly interwoven world. The scaffolding of students' natural meaning making capacities, and teaching of multiple literacies, such as visual, academic, critical, digital, multimodal, and intercultural, should take place simultaneously in the writing classes for "new …
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The case of the "innocuous" middle-class migrant employee: English language use and attitudes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
… studies have been significant to the field of World Englishes, no study has particularly observed the “innocuous” middle class migrant workforce hailing largely from Outer Circle countries, in an Expanding Circle context such as Dubai. This case-study thus, charts new ground by observing a …
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The sociolinguistic life of Bahraini youth: A scalar-chronotopic approach
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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The Expanding area turn: modelling and defining ‘English as a Potential Variety’. The case of Egyptian English
… In un tale contesto, le vecchie teorie sui World Englishes (WEs) e i relativi modelli teorici per lo studio delle varietà inglesi risultano incapaci di descrivere la situazione attuale dell’inglese nel mondo, specialmente quando vengono applicati ai casi di nuove varietà inglesi emergenti …
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Native Speaker Stance-Taking In A Multinational Conference Call
The present study examines the stance-taking measures of a native speaker director in a conference call, focusing on social contexts where foreign speakers are also involved. The transcript used in this study is comprised of a global departmental team meeting call from a multinational company based …
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English as a second racism: A Marxist approach to acceptability of article variation across racialized varieties of English’s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Ecuadorian Englishes: what's behind model preferences?
The continuing emergence of local varieties of English in the Expanding Circle (Bolton, 2012; Sharifian, 2010; Takeshita, 2010; Xu, 2010) raises questions about these English users' orientations toward native English norms and standards, as theories of language use (normativity, Kachru, 1985) and …
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Investigating Global Englishes-oriented teacher development through the lens of transformative learning theory: A study of South Korean elementary EFL teachers’ experiences
The field of Global Englishes (GE) has called for a paradigm shift in English language teaching (ELT) – a move away from standard English-oriented teaching to reflect the diversity, fluidity, and hybridity of English used in the global community. As teachers are important agents of change in the …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
The realm of New Englishes offers enriching avenues to explore the interplay between language acquisition and sociolinguistic influences in linguistically diverse ecologies. Yet research into this interdisciplinary arena remains lacking. Accordingly, this thesis addresses this paradigm gap by …