scholarly journals The Empire Struck Back: Cross‐Cultural Communication in a Multilingual Classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Mathew Bumbalough
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Multilingual Writing ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
World English ◽  
Multilingual Classroom

This pilot study explores language identity in the field of World Englishes as international students in a multilingual writing classroom encounter a Westerncentric teaching environment while struggling to become a part of the World English speaking community. In this instance, the students were able to bring their cultural and linguistic identities into the classroom in order to make meaning, and joined a community of practice that took into consideration their agency and L1 identities. Based on my initial classroom observations, I identified a pair of students to interview in order to triangulate and confirm my findings. By conducting semistructured interviews, analyzing paper topics, and learning about the participants” backgrounds, I was able to determine that while English was important to each of them in different ways, their identities were what was most important of all. Through an analysis of their interactions and interviews I assert that they are, in a true sense, speakers of World Englishes who are struggling to create their language identities as they bring their cultural and linguistic capital into the classroom to deal with any issues they face. As a result, there were several gaps I noticed between (western) teaching practices and the World Englishes the students speak. While this is a pilot study, I hope to further investigate my findings in a full ethnography that will expand on the issues in this paper.

scholarly journals NATIVESPEAKERISM AND WORLD ENGLISHES: TEACHERS PERCEPTION TOWARDS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH VARIETIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Maraden Silalahi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking Teachers

<p>In the last decade, the development of information technology confirms English as a Lingua Franca used by native English speakers and nonnative English speakers. English in a global context has triggered the emergence of new English variants, resulting from the assimilation of English into a local language known as World Englishes. On the other hand, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEAFL) in Indonesia is still oriented towards the ideology of nativespeakerism which believes that TEAFL should be done by Native English-Speaking Teachers (NEST) because they are believed to have better linguistic competence and contextual understanding than Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers (NNEST). This article is directed to determine the perceptions of English teachers in Indonesia regarding the world Englishes phenomenon. This research is qualitative research with 20 informants consisting of 10 Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers and 10 Native English-Speaking Teachers. Four Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), each consisting of 5 informants, will be conducted to gather as much information as possible related to teachers’ perceptions. This research is expected to provide an overview of foreign language teaching in Indonesia. The results showed that nativespeakerism has a strong correlation with the world Englishes phenomenon. In the Indonesian context, this is shaped by the stigma that forms in society. This research is expected to enrich teaching studies, specifically in teaching foreign languages.</p>

No need for the needle. A qualitative analysis of the antivax movement in Romania

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca-Elena David ◽  
Costin-Răzvan Enache ◽  
Gabriel Hasmațuchi ◽  
Raluca Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Extended Study ◽  
Content Quality ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The World

The antivax movement is now a constant phenomenon with increasing social implications. This study explores how the antivax movement is articulated in Romania on the basis of qualitative analysis applied to interviews. Our pilot study focuses on the opinions of 100 persons who oppose vaccination interviewed between 2017 and 2020. We conducted both face-to-face and online semistructured interviews to trace the factors determining attitudes against vaccination. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first such extended study to target individuals rather than groups or media discourse. We strive to provide a multifaceted view on how the antivax phenomenon is taking shape. Responses varied in style and length, so we needed to systematize the narratives. We filtered the answers using the interpretive net described by Entman (1993), thereby grouping the main narratives into four sections. We then reconstructed the implicit frames used by individuals in interpreting their position. We consider content quality analysis to be a relevant method to reveal the facets and depth of the antivax phenomenon, thereby enabling more complex explanations. We compare the results of this study with rationales stemming from similar investigations conducted around the world and then highlight opinions specific to the Romanian public.

scholarly journals English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Circle Model

The spread of English is considered as a tool of British political and linguistic imperialism in effects of globalization. Kachrus Three Circle model of World Englishes has always played significant role in the categorization of the spread of English. This model is always used as an important tool to critically analyze the distributed circle of English speaking regions in the world where English is dominant over other languages and cultures. In the present study the outer circle from Kachrus model is focused. A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe has been analysed through the lens of Kachrus Three Circle Model of World Englishes. The study finds that the spread of English is basically a tool used for homogenized attack by British imperialism in order to subdue other cultures, politically and linguistically.

scholarly journals Enhancing Reading Skill Through Creative Technology – A Pilot Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
The World ◽  
Back Ground ◽  
Global Language ◽  
World English

- English is considered as global language as it is used in all parts of the world. English Language is realized as a link language with global significance and also world widely spread. This paper analyzes how to enhance the students Reading Skill in mixed ability classroom. The sample respondents were from Rural, Urban and Semi-Urban back ground. The technology based Reading has improvised the students reading skill is explicit from the Pilot study. A survey was conducted among the students and the data garnered clearly shows the improvement in enhancing their language proficiency especially in reading skill.

English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Circle Model

The spread of English is considered as a tool of British political and linguistic imperialism in the effects of globalization. Kachrus Three Circle Model of World Englishes has always played a significant role in the categorization of the spread of English. This model is always used as an important tool to critically analyze the distributed circle of English speaking regions in the world where English is dominant over other languages and cultures. In the present study, the outer circle from the Kachrus model is focused. A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe has been analyzed through the lens of Kachrus Three Circle Model of World Englishes. The study finds that the spread of English is basically a tool used for homogenized attacks by British imperialism in order to subdue other cultures, politically and linguistically.

English as a Tool of British Political and Linguistic Imperialism in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (II) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Circle Model

he spread of English is considered as a tool of British political and linguistic imperialism in effects of globalization. Kachrus Three Circle model of World Englishes has always played significant role in the categorization of the spread of English. This model is always used as an important tool to critically analyze the distributed circle of English speaking regions in the world where English is dominant over other languages and cultures. In the present study the outer circle from Kachrus model is focused. A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe has been analysed through the lens of Kachrus Three Circle Model of World Englishes. The study finds that the spread of English is basically a tool used for homogenized attack by British imperialism in order to subdue other cultures, politically and linguistically.

Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Meierkord
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Contact Interactions ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Syntactic Variation ◽  
Transfer Processes ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The World ◽  
World English ◽  
Different Parts

Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When English is the mother tongue of neither of the speakers who use the language for communicative purposes, they employ it as a lingua franca. This paper describes the syntactic variation found in this variety of English. It presents the results of analyses of a corpus containing 22 hours of naturally occurring interactions and describes both unsystematic as well as (seemingly) systematic grammatical choices made by the speakers. The results reveal that, not unlike the processes which have previously been documented for dialect contact, interactions across international Englishes are characterised by processes of levelling and regularisation, whilst at the same time individual speakers retain the characteristics of their original varieties. Individual Englishes are further constrained by transfer processes and interlanguage patterns.

scholarly journals American presidents and politicians in rhyming slang

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
К. Stepanyan ◽  
Y. Gorshunov ◽  
E. Gorshunova
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking

The article is aimed at identifying onomastic rhymes as part of rhyming slang and analyzing them from a socio-cultural perspective. They are built on the names of American celebrities from the world of politics and social activities and believed to be fixers of cultural and historical items that are of certain value from the point of view of culture-oriented linguistics, cross-cultural communication and the general study of culture. TThe research methods applied are determined by the purpose and objectives of the research and include a descriptive and a linguistic ones, the latter comprising context and definitional analysis, and also semantic interpretation. The rhymes are based on the names that have been widely represented in the media from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, thus forming part of the modern cultural collective memory of the carriers of the English-speaking culture. The noted tendency of preferential creation of new rhymes, exploiting precedent onyms, became dominant in the development of rhyming slang at the turn of the century. The authors come to the conclusion that the rhymes illustrating the world of high politics have been added to the well-mastered and familiar onomastic rhymes, built on the names of celebrities from the world of cinema, pop music, popular culture and sports. The article brings to light the rhymes that have not yet been recorded in authoritative slang dictionaries. The research results can be of interest to the specialists working on the topics of intercultural communication, linguistic and cultural studies, cultural linguistics, political linguistics, euphemization, contrastive linguistics of the English and Russian languages.

FAMILY TRADITIONS: REFLECTION OF SOME FAMILY TRADITIONS IN THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD (ON THE BASIS OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK PROVERBS AND IDIOMS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Feruza Mamatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Marriage Partner ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The present paper aims to compare the principles of choosing a marriage partner and analyse the status of being in the marrriage in the frame of family traditions that are totally inherent to the both of the nations: English and Uzbek. It is known that interconnection and cross-cultural communication between the countries of these two nationalities have been recently developed. The purpose to give an idea about these types of family traditions and prevent any misunderstanding that might occur in the communications makes our investigation topical one. The research used phraseological units as an object and the marriage aspects as the subject

scholarly journals Handrails through the Swamp? A Pilot to Test the Integration and Implementation Science Framework in Complex Real-World Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5491
Author(s):  
Melissa Robson-Williams ◽  
Bruce Small ◽  
Roger Robson-Williams ◽  
Nick Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Implementation Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
Real World Problems

The socio-environmental challenges the world faces are ‘swamps’: situations that are messy, complex, and uncertain. The aim of this paper is to help disciplinary scientists navigate these swamps. To achieve this, the paper evaluates an integrative framework designed for researching complex real-world problems, the Integration and Implementation Science (i2S) framework. As a pilot study, we examine seven inter and transdisciplinary agri-environmental case studies against the concepts presented in the i2S framework, and we hypothesise that considering concepts in the i2S framework during the planning and delivery of agri-environmental research will increase the usefulness of the research for next users. We found that for the types of complex, real-world research done in the case studies, increasing attention to the i2S dimensions correlated with increased usefulness for the end users. We conclude that using the i2S framework could provide handrails for researchers, to help them navigate the swamps when engaging with the complexity of socio-environmental problems.

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