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The Effects of Exposure and Explicit Phonological Instruction of English Varieties on GELT Listening Comprehension
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Ethan Fu-Yen Chiu; Jr-An Lin – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
The Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) approach plays an essential role in English as a lingua franca. Previous GELT studies only examined the influence of Global English exposure on learners' attitudes in the Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circles. This study added explicit instruction on phonological features in addition to a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Faculty Experiences in Delivering an American University Curriculum in an International Branch Campus: A Case Study of the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York Undergraduate Program at the Singapore Institute of Management
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McKelvey, Kevin F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This instrumental case study explores the experiences of visiting faculty members at an American university's international branch campus (IBC) in Singapore. It is concerned with one aspect of the broader topic of quality assurance in transnational higher education: the manner in which faculty hybridize their home campus course curricula for use…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Critical Pedagogy, Internationalisation, and a Third Space: Cultural Tensions Revealed in Students' Discourse
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Pitts, Margaret Jane; Brooks, Catherine F. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Set within the context of a global pursuit towards the internationalisation of higher education, this paper critically examines student discourse in a globally connected classroom between learners in the USA and Singapore. It makes salient some of the cultural assumptions and tensions that undergird students' discourse in collaborative…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Analysis
Non-Native English Speakers and Nonstandard English: An In-Depth Investigation
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Polat, Brittany – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Given the rising prominence of nonstandard varieties of English around the world (Jenkins 2007), learners of English as a second language are increasingly called on to communicate with speakers of both native and non-native nonstandard English varieties. In many classrooms around the world, however, learners continue to be exposed only to…
Descriptors: North American English, English (Second Language), Nonstandard Dialects, Listening Comprehension
Vowel and Consonant Lessening: A Study of Articulating Reductions and Their Relations to Genders
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Lin, Grace Hui Chin; Chien, Paul Shih Chieh – Online Submission, 2011
Using English as a global communicating tool makes Taiwanese people have to speak in English in diverse international situations. However, consonants and vowels in English are not all effortless for them to articulate. This phonological reduction study explores concepts about phonological (articulating system) approximation. From Taiwanese folks'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Articulation (Speech), Language Fluency
Educated Japanese English: Expanding Oral/Aural Core Vocabulary
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D'Angelo, James F. – World Englishes, 2005
Having established the world's first undergraduate college of world Englishes, and in an "Expanding-Circle" setting, we have created the pilot environment for a new type of ELT curriculum. We must address the creation of a curriculum that is pervasively informed by the philosophy of world Englishes at both a macro and micro level.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North American English, Speech Communication, English (Second Language)