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Nkemleke, Daniel – World Englishes, 2010
This contribution explores rhetorical features in 207 abstracts submitted for four international conferences in Yaounde (Cameroon), Regensburg (Germany) and Birmingham (UK). Relevant text features are retrieved from the corpus via concordance software and results are discussed in the light of their frequency of occurrence. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Documentation
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Grau, Maike – World Englishes, 2009
This paper focuses on German teenagers and their contact with English in two different contexts: in free-time activities typically involving the mass media, and in institutionalised language learning settings at school. It draws on an empirical study carried out in German secondary schools. Its mixed methods approach combines a questionnaire study…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Leisure Time, Focus Groups, Adolescents