The purpose of this study is to investigate the language attitudes of Japanese university students toward Japanese English in comparison to their attitudes toward Chinese English and American English. Voiced Guise Technique and questionnaires were used as methodology, having 80 students as participants. The study found that their evaluation of Japanese English was intermediate in terms of solid...

Studies on English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ identity construction have been extensively investigated in recent years. However, the previous studies exclusively focused teachers higher education and neglected Global Englishes (GE) concept mediator construction. Therefore, to fill this lacuna, current narrative research study explored of 10 Indonesian EFL secondary school era. The da...

This research is focused on the automatic detection of one of the fundamental elements of Brazil’s prosody model, the tone unit. We compared the performance of using silent pause duration alone to delimit tone units and using relative pitch resets and slow pace (or post-boundary lengthening) along with silent pause duration to delimit them. The corpus used for the comparison is composed of 18 h...

Research on the morpho-syntax of non-native varieties of English has reported a widespread presence of mass noun pluralization such as baggages, equipments and softwares. In this paper we conducted a corpus linguistic study in order to provide empirically substantiated answers to this claim. We examined the purported prevalence of noun countability in World Englishes in a 1.9 billion-token mega...

Nigerian English like a variety of world Englishes has received scholarly investigations at the segmental and suprasegmental levels. At level, studies on major varieties have identified characteristic nature stress assignment interactions, but little or no research explored loanwords in English. The study examines placements among educated Igbo Yoruba speakers A well-prepared text was read by s...

Social media platforms such as Twitter is constantly transforming the usage of lexical items among global Internet users, including in Malaysia. Interestingly, despite adopting British English national education system, American gaining prominence Malaysians due to widespread dissemination through media. has been classified a hyper-central language, serving hub for Mair’s theory The World Syste...

Nigerian English as a variety of world Englishes has received scholarly investigations at the segmental and suprasegmental levels. At level, studies on major varieties have identified characteristic nature stress assignment interactions, but little or no research explored loanwords in English. The study examines placements among educated Igbo Yoruba speakers A well-prepared text is read by sixt...

In English language teaching (ELT) circles, the used in Philippines is traditionally labelled as ESL. However, that label, including attitudes and practices it brings, does not accurately capture complex situation country. this article, we argue education account for multilingual linguistically diverse context of use We monolingual perspectives approaches ELT continue to dominate field. Issues ...