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Kiavar, Negar; Yaghoubi-Notash, Massoud – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
Today's world seems to be quite overwhelmingly concerned with communication as an incontestable aspect of which is communicating with people lacking a shared linguistic background. A common language (or lingua franca) would, therefore, be needed which can cut across all local, national, and regional linguistic boundaries. This study aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Ballinger, Susan; Brouillard, Melanie; Ahooja, Alexa; Kircher, Ruth; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, French, Language Attitudes
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Stell, Gerald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study sheds light on the socio-economic factors determining the (re)location of sociolinguistic prestige in postcolonial environments. It uses the case of Namibia, an ethnolinguistically diverse African country that replaced Afrikaans -- an established lingua franca -- with English as its official language to weaken the hold of the formerly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
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Karolak, Magdalena – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper presents the first in-depth analysis of linguistic landscape (LL) of a migrant area in Dubai. While Arabic is the official language of the country, few foreigners learn it and English has become the lingua franca that allows migrant communities to communicate. Nonetheless, English and Arabic are mother tongues to a minority of resident…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Neighborhoods, Foreign Countries, Arabic
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Boonsamritphol, Navarat; Rungrojsuwan, Sorabud – English Language Teaching, 2021
This research aimed to develop the World Englishes instructional model to enhance students' listening comprehension of varieties of English. The student's needs analysis was conducted in the first step of the study to gather data concerning the needs, problems, and opinions on teaching and learning English listening. Thirty students participated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Canagarajah, Suresh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The dominant analytical approaches to Lingua Franca English interactions are largely influenced by a structuralist orientation that prioritizes verbal resources in localized face-to-face contexts. This article argues that recent developments in globalization, mobility, and digital communication call for a more complex orientation to the focus and…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Semiotics, Work Environment, English (Second Language)
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Li, Jian; Xu, Ming; Chen, Jiayi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Indigenous languages in poverty-stricken areas are often threatened by competition from the majority languages driving economic progress. Within the framework of the economics of linguistic exchanges, this paper discusses the possibility of transferring linguistic capital into economic capital, and the revaluation of minority languages to promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Indigenous Populations, Language Minorities
Manley, Regina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research documents the experience of 12 local leaders implementing an oral curriculum over 13 months in Karnataka, India. These leaders were Change Agents interested in influencing a community with new information. They created audio materials referred to as "content" in their group's mother tongue: In a Kannada-Telegu mix for the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Change Agents, Indians, Audio Equipment
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Boulard, Florence – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
New Caledonia is a French overseas territory in the South Pacific with a long history of differing attitudes towards independence (Fisher, 2019). The local government aims to challenge French cultural hegemony by building a "New Caledonian School" (Gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, 2016). That is, a school in which students are…
Descriptors: Picture Books, English (Second Language), French, Foreign Policy
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Ning, Xu; Stephen, Jeannet – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2022
Purpose: This research explores the standard language ideology in Chinese foreign language education policies. The most substantial in relation to language policy and management in regard to language ideology are beliefs associated with the values on the named language and its varieties (Spolsky, 2009). In the standard language ideology, the…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
This paper draws on two forms of cognitive studies to examine how a minority language literature cultivates feelings of in-group belonging. The minority in focus are the Tornedalingar: Swedish nationals who live near the Torne River which marks the border with Finland. The official language of the Tornedalingar is "Meänkieli" which…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Childrens Literature, Official Languages, Cultural Influences
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Hanemann, Ulrike; McKay, Veronica – International Review of Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to examine literacy and numeracy scores of learners who participated in the South African "Kha Ri Gude" Literacy Campaign. Analysing the learning outcomes of the 2011 cohort of a total of 485,941 participants, the authors seek to identify variations between the learners' achievements across the eleven official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Language of Instruction
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Shleykina, Galina – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
In the current conditions of globalization and the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), the notions of pragmatic competence and appropriateness as well as pragmatic failure become of paramount importance to the language learners and instructors. The current article discusses these questions through an approximate replication of Jaworski's…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Togboa, Edith Natukunda; Tumwine, Agatha; Ebil, Moses Wang'koko – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
In Uganda, publishing in French dates back to more than a century while its teaching dates from the early 1950s. Despite the position of English as the official language, French has for a long time been enjoying a privileged institutionalised position as a language of culture and a vehicle of international cooperation. French is offered as a…
Descriptors: French, Futures (of Society), Language Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Abdullaev, Ruslan – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Uzbekistan is a multinational country where the Uzbek language remains the only official language within the country. While historically the Russian language has served the function of a "lingua franca" for ethnic minorities, and was often viewed as a second "mother tongue" within Uzbekistan, its status appears to be declining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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