INTRODUCTION According to Crystal (2003), English is arguably the world's first ―global language,‖ a language that is used more commonly than any other language and one recognized with a powerful status in every country. English in South Korea of course is no exception. As a country where English is used as a foreign language, South Korea has become one of the largest consumers of English with ...

In this autoethnographic critical self-inquiry study, I draw upon my unique identity as once a Chinese international student and now an English professor at private research university in the United States to investigate how sought for multilingual empowered students while coping with linguicism monolingual ideologies. Despite increasing cultural linguistic diversity population, faculty body de...

This article investigates how linguistic landscapes (LLs) can foster critical thinking about power relations and tensions in multilingual areas by acting as stimuli to reflect on the ethnolinguistic vitality of languages a given region. We examine pedagogical use LLs resources for implementation plurilingual pedagogies mainstream secondary school classrooms two distinct sites: Germany Netherlan...

Recently, language acquisition research from the generative paradigm has turned its attention to investigating heritage language bilingualism in the hopes that studying the adult competence outcomes of these childhood bilinguals can inform key issues pertaining to bilingual acquisition more generally as well as issues relating to L1 attrition and adult L2 acquisition theorizing (see Montrul 200...

Lingua receptiva: An Ecolinguistic Approach to Slavic Inter-Language Contacts in a Borderland Area (a Polish-Czech Case)Ecolinguistics has dealt with inter-language contacts ever since its beginnings as an independent linguistic discipline the 1970s. However, it not gained much interest among studies scholars Poland. The aim of this article is present ecolinguistic concept research on example P...

The culture of the indigenous people of Peru, descendants of the Incas, and the creators of an important cultural and social heritage, has been eroded by the politics of exclusion and disintegration. Not only did the colonialization of the Spanish disintegrate the indigenous culture, but Peruvians themselves are neglecting their native roots, excluding them from the educational system. In this ...

Contemporary poetry appears in a diverse range of forms and medial constellations: in spoken word events live on stage, on audio CDs – spoken by the poets themselves or by professional speakers, at times accompanied by music or beats –, in YouTube videos, as entertaining ‘poetry clips,’ as artistic poetry films in art installations in museums, public spaces or the cinema. Finally, there is a wi...

This study investigates constraints on ultimate attainment in second language (L2) pronunciation in a direct comparison of perceived foreign accent of 40 late L2 learners and 40 late first language (L1) attriters of German. Both groups were compared with 20 predominantly monolingual controls. Contrasting participants who acquired the target language from birth (monolinguals, L1 attriters) with ...

Language policy is a hugely diverse field, united only by the intent to influence language use in some way. Much early research field asserted that had an emancipatory drive, empower downtrodden minorities against cruelty or indifference of majoritarian politics. But over years, critical accounts have increasingly questioned who precisely benefits from promoting minoritized languages. Indeed, c...