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Teachers’ and learners’ beliefs about World Englishes, EIL, and ELF: a systematic review Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Hossein Ali Manzouri, Zia Tajeddin, Gholam Reza Kiany
This article presents a systematic review of studies investigating teachers’ and learners’ beliefs about English varieties, World Englishes, English as an international language (EIL), and English ...
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The resurgence of eibungaku in Japanese ELT: A critical reflection on whitewashing in recently published eibumpō textbooks Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Tomoaki Morikawa
Recently, a number of eibungaku [English and American literature]-based eibumpō [English grammar] textbooks have been published in Japan. Historically, teaching English by using eibungaku materials...
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Taking stock of English medium instruction (EMI) outcomes in the Asian context: is EMI leading to content and language gains? Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Oliver Hadingham
Published in Asian Englishes (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The role of ‘correctness’ in the age of English as a lingua franca: implications for teaching practice Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Adem Soruç, Carol Griffiths
This study investigated non-English major students’ (N = 322) perceptions of non-standard lexico-grammatical features of English often considered to be acceptable when those without a common first ...
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Editorial Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-10-24 James F. D’Angelo
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2023)
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The ideological tug-of-war of language policies in the Philippines: perspectives and proposal Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Karizza P. Bravo-Sotelo, James McLellan, Noor Azam Haji-Othman
Implementing mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines opens opportunities for learner inclusion and access, which is also in harmony with UNESCO's Sustainable Develop...
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Language and tourism in Cambodia: a multi-case study of the linguistic landscape in Phnom Penh hotels Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Evangeline Lin
Cambodia’s multilingual and multicultural ecology has in recent decades been largely influenced by globalisation and tourism. International businesses within the tourism industry, such as hotels, o...
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Does contextual information within a sentence affect the relationship between word level intelligibility and the Functional Load principle among ELF users? A preliminary study Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-19 George O’Neal
The Functional Load (FL) principle predicts that a high FL phonemic substitution lowers the intelligbility more than a low FL phonemic substitution. However, as yet no study has comprehensively inv...
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L1 Influence on Stop Consonant Production: A Case Study of Malaysian Mandarin-English Bilinguals Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Bee Kee Ng, Poh Shin Chiew
ABSTRACT Although English plays an important role in the linguistic repertoire of Malaysian speakers, there have been limited acoustic studies on the phonological aspect of English spoken in Malaysia. This study investigates the phonetic variation of the English initial stop consonants produced by 10 Mandarin–English bilinguals by measuring voice onset time (VOT) and closure duration as the primary
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Official policies of English language education in Iran: ‘policy as discourse’ in national documents Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Mahshid Miryouness Haghi
ABSTRACT Considering the uncontested global status of English today, overt and covert policies of English language teaching (ELT) have shaped a significant area of broader national language (education) policies. In this study we investigated nine major national policy documents to portray the overall official ELT policies in Iran. The documents were explored through qualitative content analysis in
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MOOC-ing around ‘Englishes’ by Thai students: applying the GELT framework Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Krich Rajprasit
ABSTRACT This study attempted to broaden understanding on the origin and present roles of English and support the notion of Global Englishes (GE) using a tailor-made Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The designed instructional materials and media such as motion graphics and interview videos were developed to broaden their understanding about the origin and present roles of English and its use in multilingual
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Bridging conceptual gaps in Global Englishes Language Teaching: ethnographic insights from Thai higher education Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Anuchaya Montakantiwong
ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographically informed multiple case-study data of seven in-service English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in two universities in Thailand, this article reports on findings with respect to the teachers’ thoughts on the relevance of incorporating the Global Englishes (GE) perspectives in their local language classrooms. Also considered is the question of what attributes
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Exploring TESOL graduate students’ perceptions towards Global Englishes in Nepal Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Binod Dhami, Denchai Prabjandee
ABSTRACT With the global spread of English, an entrenched native speakerism ideology is problematized by the Global Englishes (GE) paradigm. GE scholars have called for actions to implement Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) to prepare learners to use English with diverse English users. Before implementing any classroom innovation like GELT, exploring learners’ perceptions of GE and GELT is
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Translingual English words of Korean origin and beyond: skinship, fighting, chimaek Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Hyejeong Ahn, Jieun Kiaer
This study offers an overview of contemporary translingual English words derived from Korean and examines their unique characteristics. Previous research has highlighted that translingual words tra...
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Introduction to the special issue: multilingual and multicultural English education in Asia Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Isabel Pefianco Martin, Marianne Rachel G. Perfecto, Wei Keong Too
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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‘It’s a language politic’: Sri Lankan English and linguistic hierarchies in the English language classroom Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Brooke Schreiber, Mihiri Jansz
ABSTRACT This study investigates the language ideologies of eight in-service English teachers in Sri Lanka in order to understand how these teachers approach the plural Englishes in their classrooms. Specifically, this article traces, three years after World Englishes-oriented linguistics coursework, these instructors’ beliefs about the existence and appropriate use of Sri Lankan Englishes (SLE), and
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Prospects for English medium education of Indian migrant children: Multilingualism of the unequals Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Sagi Nathan
ABSTRACT This article sets out to analyse the lingua-educational vulnerabilities of Indian migrant school children (henceforth IMC) and the nonchalant educational policies which neglect the cultural and linguistic resources of migrant children’s ‘mother tongue(s)’ in school settings. The study analyses IMC’s educational marginalisation and monolingualisation, and the state’s exclusive non-inclusive
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Does Philippine English subject–verb agreement exist in academic writing? The case of research articles across disciplines Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Hjalmar Punla Hernandez
ABSTRACT Subject–verb agreement is an overlooked grammatical aspect of Philippine English especially in academic registers. This study analyses Philippine English subject–verb agreement in published research articles (RAs) written by Filipino researchers across disciplines. Using Bautista’s subject–verb agreement framework and D’Souza's criteria for linguistic innovation, disciplinary RAs were analyzed
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The use of L1 in students’ English learning materials Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Didi Sukyadi
ABSTRACT While studies on the use of L1 in the classroom have proven beneficial for language learning, studies on the use of it in English learning materials (ELMs) are rare. This paper explores how and why the Indonesian language (L1) is used in ELMs and how teachers perceive its use in ELMs. Nine English textbooks and modules were analyzed, while two textbook and module authors were interviewed.
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Deliberate metaphors in English as a lingua franca interactions: characteristics and constructing processes Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Yang Pang, Lanping Li
Drawing on insights from intercultural pragmatics and Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study investigates the use of metaphorical expressions in English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions. Resea...
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‘Know know married’: playfulness of Manglish in social media platforms Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Nur Husna Serip Mohamad, Hidayu Shafie
Manglish is often associated with negative prestige, such as broken English that arises out of inappropriate direct translations from the Malay language into English. In recent years, however, Mang...
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Understanding challenges, investment, and strategic language use of postgraduate students in an English-medium university in Kazakhstan Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Anas Hajar, Gulmira Batyrkhanova, Syed Abdul Manan
This qualitative study documents six postgraduate Kazakh students’ challenges, language learning strategies (LLSs), and future vision while studying at a highly selective English medium instruction...
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A critical analysis of Vietnam-produced English textbooks for high school students: intercultural and multicultural perspectives Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Nguyen Quang Tien
ABSTRACT In the twenty-first century, language users’ communicative competence needs to include a new dimension –intercultural and multicultural literacy – necessary for communication in multilingual and multicultural settings. This article aims to present a study answering the central research question ‘How are interculturalism and multiculturalism reflected in a series of Vietnam-produced English
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‘People are already doing it’: Malaysian English language teachers’ perceptions on translanguaging Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Wei Keong Too
ABSTRACT This study argues for adoption of a translanguaging lens in Malaysian English language classrooms because translanguaging practices are considered scaffolding tools in teaching and learning of the language. This argument was derived from a case study which used interviews with seven Malaysian secondary school English language teachers. The objectives of this study were to examine the teachers’
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From a Foreign Language to own Language: Resolving Conflicts Over English Education in Japan Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Peter Iori Kobayashi
ABSTRACT There have been controversies over Japan’s English education policy. The proponents argue that strengthening English is necessary for remaining economically competitive and catching up with neighboring countries. This article surveys non-academic Japanese-language books to understand various views on the English policy in Japan. The opposition to the policy came from both the right and the
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Introduction to Indian English for Japanese – language, culture and customs Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Hiroko Miyake
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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East Asia and English language speakers: a population estimation through existing random sampling surveys Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Takunori Terasawa
Many applied linguists have attempted to quantify the number of English-speaking populations, both globally and in specific countries. However, thus far, those in East Asia have not been estimated ...
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Monolingual or translingual? Chinese–English bilinguals shifting orientations to English in the workplace Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Jiadi Zhang, Stephen Daniel Looney
Recent work has reconceptualized language and interaction in terms that blur lines between languages, modalities, and material resources, and much of this work has taken up terms such as translingu...
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Situated and localised learning: examining the case of two English language teachers in multilingual settings in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Marianne Rachel G. Perfecto
ABSTRACT This article describes the teaching practices of two K–12 English language teachers in the Philippines at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data used in the study came from the interview of the two teachers, and a content analysis of some modules that they used. The study utilised Canagarajah’s critical pedagogy framework to describe the extent to which the teachers’ reported teaching practices
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English and identity performance in Filipino vlogs Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ma Cienna Jaucian
Using Moody’s framework for understanding the authority and authenticity of performative English in popular culture, this article describes and analyzes the features and uses of the English deploye...
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Academic language-related challenges, self-reported proficiency, and academic success at an EMI university in Brunei Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Gardiner Ishamina Athirah
This article reports an empirical study that investigates academic language challenges faced by university students in an Outer Circle context with almost four decades of English-medium instruction...
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Editorial Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Isabel Pefianco Martin
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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Lessons the coronavirus pandemic has taught us: one language is not enough Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Hadeel Alkhateeb, Maha Ellili, Badriya Al-Lenjawi
The rapid spread of the coronavirus has left national economies, educational systems, medical sectors, and social spheres struggling with a new reality. This reality has led to a crisis in multilin...
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Philippine English and Global Englishes-inspired grammar teaching Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Alejandro S. Bernardo
This article forwards a framework for making English grammar teaching Philippine English (PE) and Global Englishes (GE)-inspired. It proposes a constructive alignment between and among grammar teac...
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The native speaker model and language learners: developing a measurement instrument Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Justin Harris
This article describes the development of an instrument designed to measure language learners’ attitudes toward native and non-native speakers, and localized Englishes, which may have been shaped b...
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Editorial Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Nathanael Rudolph
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2022)
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Cultural content of an English textbook in Indonesia: text analysis and teachers’ attitudes Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Tahan H. J. Sihombing, Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen
ABSTRACT This study investigates the types of culture (e.g. source culture, target culture, and international culture) that are presented in a high school level English textbook in Indonesia and teachers’ attitudes toward this cultural presentation. Data were obtained from an English textbook nationally prescribed for Grade 10 senior high school students in Indonesia and semi-structured interviews
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Singlish particles and politeness work in face-threatening speech acts Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Yun-Sxin Lai, Ying-Ying Tan
ABSTRACT Having been thought to be ‘crass’, ‘uneducated’ and ‘unintelligent’, Singlish, also commonly known as Singapore Colloquial English, is perceived to be an impolite language. In particular, Singlish particles, which are purportedly Singlish’s most distinctive feature, have been said to exacerbate threats to addressees’ negative and positive face. However, existing literature has found that in
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Embracing ELF through Erasmus+ mobility: a case study Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Muhammet Yaşar Yüzlü
Erasmus+ experiences are shown to impact students’ beliefs and values, offering exposure to English in daily life. This qualitative exploratory case study investigates how Erasmus+ mobility affects...
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English assessment in Vietnam: status quo, major tensions, and underlying ideological conflicts Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Xuan Minh Ngo
This article reveals some major and interrelated tensions between policy intentions and implementation of English assessment in Vietnam via a critical review of policy, research, and media document...
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ELT profession in the post native-speakerism era Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Masaki Oda
For a long time, the English language teaching (ELT) profession in Asia has been regarded as a dichotomous composition of so-called ‘native English speaker’ (NES) teachers and ‘non-native English s...
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Growing pains: graduate students grappling with English medium instruction in Kazakhstan Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Mir Afzal Tajik, Syed Abdul Manan, Adina-Camelia Arvatu, Maganat Shegebayev
This study investigates graduate students’ experiences with English medium instruction (EMI) in Kazakhstan. The data reported here were collected through an online survey conducted in 10 public and...
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Perceiving and problematizing ‘invisibility’ in English language education and criticality: a duoethnographic dialogue Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Madoka Hammine, Nathanael Rudolph
The dominant social, political and educational narrative of ‘homogeneous Japan’ has been both perpetuated and challenged inside Japan and abroad. Transdisciplinary scholarship and critical communal...
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The coloniality of native speakerism Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Ruanni Tupas
ABSTRACT In various iterations of studies of Global Englishes, much has been written about native-speakerism. However, Kumaravadivelu asks why the intellectual output has not substantially altered the power dynamics between ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speakers. This article conducts a critical historiography of native-speakerism and shows how it is fundamentally implicated in the mobilization of race
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Guest editors’ introduction: critical Global Englishes in language education Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Fan Fang, Handoyo Puji Widodo, Tariq Elyas
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)
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Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of the ancient city of Jerash Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Omar I. S. Alomoush
ABSTRACT This article examines multilingualism in the linguistic landscape (LL) of the ancient city of Jerash with a concentration on the use of English on signs. The analysis of monolingual and multilingual practices is based on a corpus of 68 signs collected from the historical sites of Jerash. The LL items identified include two main types of signs: official and unofficial tokens. What is remarkable
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World Englishes and ‘Global Englishes’: competing or complementary paradigms? Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Marzieh Sadeghpour, James D’Angelo
ABSTRACT This article takes a macro look at the canon of scholarship in the World Englishes and English as an international language paradigms, which fundamentally derive from the work of Kachru and Smith, and then considers the more recent emergence of research published under the rubric of ‘Global Englishes’ by way of the English as a lingua franca paradigm by Jenkins and scholars she has developed
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Why keep silent? Voices from Thai EFL students in an English-medium instruction university Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Chatchawan Chaiyasat, Arthit Intakaew
In a collectivistic society such as Thailand, quiet students are considered as demonstrating negative academic performance in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. This phenomenological s...
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ELF Teacher Talk: Examining Speech Modification in Japanese Classrooms Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Steven M. Lim
English education in Japan is in the process of transitioning from English as a foreign language to English as a lingua franca (ELF). This mixed-methods study investigated whether ELF principles of...
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Dialectal preferences: a mixed methods study of ESL students’ attitudes towards Englishes in Pakistan Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Sanum Gul, Liaquat Ali Channa
The global spread of English has induced an unrivaled growth of local varities of English. The study aimed to explore Pakistani university students’ attitudes toward the Pakisani, British, and Amer...
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Designing English language materials from the perspective of Global Englishes Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Handoyo Puji Widodo, Fan Fang, Tariq Elyas
ABSTRACT Driven by a growing body of research on Global Englishes (GE) in English language education, this article showcases the integration of GE into language materials. The goal of the article is to propose a practical way of designing GE-based language materials from a critical ecological perspective. First, we discuss the recontextualization of GE in designing English language materials. Then
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Rethinking language teacher education in the Global Englishes paradigm: the Cline of Glocality in Singapore Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Ee Ling Low
ABSTRACT Education in Singapore is set against a background that is ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse. Singapore’s deliberate language policy and planning saw the birth of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically ascribed mother tongues. This has given rise to Singaporeans whose English proficiency level allows them to be globally competent
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Navigating the complexities of criticality and identity in ELT: a collaborative autoethnography Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Ali Fuad Selvi, Nathanael Rudolph, Bedrettin Yazan
ABSTRACT This collaborative autoethnographic inquiry presents a snapshot of our critical and contextualized perspectives and experiences surrounding the issues and ideologies pertinent to (non-)nativeness in and beyond language education evolved across time and space. We adopt the methodological lens of ‘collaborative autoethnographic inquiry’ to discuss how conversation and collaboration, while proving
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Global Englishes and the pedagogical challenge of developing one’s own voice Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Kurt Kohn
ABSTRACT The Standard English (SE) preference firmly anchored in many English teachers’ attitudes and practices has been identified as a major problem hindering speaker-learners from developing competence for emancipated Global Englishes (GE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication. The article addresses the issues involved from a social constructivist perspective according to which speaker-learners
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Towards critical translanguaging: a review of literature on English as a medium of instruction in South Asia’s school education Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Pramod K. Sah, Ryuko Kubota
ABSTRACT English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has recently dominated language-in-education policies in South Asia while bilingual/multilingual practices have historically been the norm in primary and secondary education. Although the research on translanguaging is rapidly undertaken in English-only spaces in other world regions (e.g. North America), such studies are rare in South Asia. To this
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Global English Medium Instruction: Perspectives at the crossroads of Global Englishes and EMI Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Heath Rose, Kari Sahan, Sihan Zhou
ABSTRACT This conceptual article draws together perspectives from the research fields of Global Englishes and English medium instruction (EMI) to explore shared issues, critical perspectives, and future agendas. While embedded in the reality of English being a dominant global language and academic lingua franca, both Global Englishes and EMI lobby for the promotion of multilingual pedagogies, challenge
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Editorial Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-03-11 James D’Angelo
(2022). Editorial. Asian Englishes: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1-1.
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Important but not desired: students’ perception towards English(es) in multilingual settings Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Irham
This article investigates students’ perceptions towards English(es), English(es) they desire, and (in)justice in English language teaching (ELT) practices in Indonesian multilingual contexts. Data ...
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Is English an Asian language? Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Adina Staicov
Published in Asian Englishes (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2022)
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Bringing Global Englishes to the ELT classroom: English language learners’ reflections Asian Englishes Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Naratip Jindapitak, Adisa Teo, Kristof Savski
ABSTRACT The increasing use of English as a global language has challenged many the fundamental assumptions underpinning English langugae teaching (ELT). The Global Englishes (GE) paradigm acknowledges linguistic diversity associated with English use today, highlighting the need for this diverse profile of English to be reflected in language classrooms. This article reports on the effect of raising