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Hutchison, Charles B.; Quach, Lan; Wiggan, Greg – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
As global migrations of both teachers and students have increased, so has the need to re-learn English in response to local parlances. Thus, the use of formal and informal language styles, the masking of accents, and the understanding of the differential use of certain specific words, expressions, and the like become critical for teachers and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Language Usage
Adegbija, Efurosibina – 1994
A study of language attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area of 45 countries and over 1,700 languages, attempts to: (1) pinpoint attitudinal patterns towards European and indigenous languages; (2) give these attitudes historical perspective; (3) identify attitudes toward language use in education; (4) encourage language research on attitudes in…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Demography, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Attitudes