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Lee, Hakyoon – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This study investigates how transnational women construct their social relations by telling stories in a lingua franca environment (Firth 1996). My main interest lies in naturally occurring and interactionally achieved stories (Bamberg 2004; Georgakopoulou 2007) told during break time of an adult English as a Second Language (ESL) class in…
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Second Language Learning, Adults
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Bodemer, Brett; Brown, Karen; Crowther, Jennifer – Public Services Quarterly, 2009
The Future Voices in Public Services column is a forum for students in graduate library and information science programs to discuss key issues they see in academic library public services, to envision what they feel librarians in public service have to offer to academia, to tell us of their visions for the profession, or to tell us of research…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Lum, Darrell H. Y. – Educational Perspectives, 2008
In this article, the author explores local culture and local cultural practices in an attempt to understand the forces and influences that have affected the development of a local identity as well as the persistence of Pidgin (Hawai'i Creole) as its language. The author begins with an introductory discussion of themes that emerge in two short…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Pidgins, Creoles, Local Norms