The term native-like proficiency in English refers to the ability speak language like a native speaker. This study was conducted investigate Afghan major undergraduate students’ attitudes toward at two public universities Afghanistan. specifically investigated of students characteristics speaker language, speakers’ linguistic imperialism, and language. A mixed research design used for study. qu...

In this article, I present a new Foucauldian reading of the international, via Foucault’s concept of ‘biopolitics’. I begin by surveying the existing Foucauldian perspectives on the international, which mostly take as their point of departure Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’, and mostly diagnose a ‘global governmentality’ or ‘global biopolitics’ in the current era of globalisation. Again...

There is a growing debate about economics not only being bad for practice but even destroying good management practice. The focus of this debate has been on the negative influences of wrong assumptions in theory building which become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We analyze why standard economics indeed can be bad for managerial and political practice. Aside from wrong assumptions, economic imper...

This article argues that the teaching of English as an international language (EIL) should be based on an entirely different set of assumptions than has typically informed English language teaching (ELT) pedagogy. To begin, several defining features of an international language are described. Because these features have altered the nature of English itself, the author maintains that the pedagog...

Sport development had been influenced by military, economic, political and social chaos. The period 1912 to 1927 was a tumultuous time for China, fragmented and ruled as it was by an assortment of regional military dictators or warlords. The first Chinese Republic was established in 1912 and soon collapsed, in 1916, when the first president Yuan Shih-kai died. National government ceased to exis...

The author condemns the “hegemony” of scientifi c materialism, comparing it to the dominance of scholasticism during the Middle Ages. He points out that if we are to regard religious entities and spiritual experiences as “supernatural” and imaginary on the grounds that they cannot be measured and described objectively, then we must regard all our experience of the world as equally supernatural ...