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Browning, Peter; Highet, Katy; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Douek, Tania; Gong, Eleanor Yue; Sunyol, Andrea – London Review of Education, 2022
Within the spirit of conspiration, this article brings together contributions from participants of the PhD-led UCL Reading and React Group 'Colonialism(s), Neoliberalism(s) and Language Teaching and Learning', which ran in 2019/20. Weaving together various perspectives, the article centres on the dialogic nature of the decolonial enterprise and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Colonialism, Educational Change
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Bai, B. Lakshmi – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper is an attempt to study empirically a sample of spoken narratives of Hindi, Telugu and Dakkhini speakers in the multilingual setting of Hyderabad. After a brief account of multilingualism and variation within a language as commonly occurring phenomena, the paper examines the spoken narratives of the three languages mentioned above with a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Personal Narratives, Expressive Language, Indo European Languages
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)
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
Based on a long-term, evolving exploration regarding English language teaching and learning in English-and vernacular-medium settings in Gujarat, India, this paper offers a discussion of two key points: 1) the degree to which English is vernacularized in multilingual postcolonial contexts, and 2) ways in which vernacular pedagogic practices are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Leitner, Gerhard; Hesselmann, Markus – World Englishes, 1996
Combines contextual parameters with media language studies, focusing on the sports domain in the print and broadcast media in British, Indian, and Ghanaian English. The article examines the link between the sports register and the media version of actions. Findings confirm that media are a considerable differentiating factor. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Athletics, Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Journalism
Dayal, P. P. – 1986
The English spoken in India is too close to standard English to be characterized as a separate variety. Although phonological variations give English in India some regional flavors, they do not have any structural or semantic base and do not constitute a new language. Cultural differences have not caused English-language literature written in…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Dialect Studies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries