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Divergent Patterns of Variant Tag Questions in Pakistani English: A Corpus-Based Comparative Study
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Hussain, Zahida; Asif, Muhammad; Aslam, Ayesha; Mahmood, Muhammad Asim – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
The research explores forms and function of variant tag questions (VTQs) in the native and non-native Englishes. For the said purpose, patterns of VTQs in Pakistani English are compared with two native (British and New Zealand) and two non-native (Indian and Singaporean) varieties. The components of the "International Corpus of English,"…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
American or British? A Corpus-Based Analysis of Asian Englishes' Orthographical Norms
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Antonio, Abigail F.; Bacang, Bernardita G.; Rillo, Richard M.; Alieto, Ericson O.; Caspillo, Warrelen D. C. – Online Submission, 2019
This study is one of the pioneers in investigating and analyzing the orthographical conventions/norms of the outer circle Asian Englishes using one of the largest databases of English corpus, the Global Web-based English (GloWbE). This study extends the analysis of the current orthographical norms of the new varieties to their colonial parents.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics, Databases
Defining "Native Speaker" in Multilingual Settings: English as a Native Language in Asia
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Hansen Edwards, Jette G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The current study examines how and why speakers of English from multilingual contexts in Asia are identifying as native speakers of English. Eighteen participants from different contexts in Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and The Philippines, who self-identified as native speakers of English participated in hour-long interviews…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Global English Teaching and Teacher Education: Praxis and Possibility
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Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran, Ed.; Hardman, Joel, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2008
Today's English language teaching goes beyond the norms of English spoken and taught in native-English-speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or Australia. Increasingly, a variety of countries have established, formally or informally, a kind of English unique to their own populations, and English language teachers within…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Local Issues, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
The Relationship of Sign Language Varieties in India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
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Woodward, James C. – Sign Language Studies, 1993
Recent research has shown that sign language varieties in India and Pakistan are related. This report examines the possible relationship of sign language varieties in India and Pakistan to those in Nepal by analyzing comparative lexical data from sign language varieties in the three countries. (10 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Variation
South Asian Languages in Britain: A Critique of Safder Alladina's Analysis.
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Russell, Ralph – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Safder Alladina's analysis of the position of South Asian languages in Britain leaves much to be desired, concerning itself largely with Urdu, Hindi to a lesser extent, and hardly at all with Bengali, Gujarati, and Panjabi. The problems and solutions of devising policies appropriate to these languages need to be discussed in greater detail. (CB)
Descriptors: Bengali, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Government Role