Unlike multilingual classrooms, where the variety of L1 backgrounds contributes to phonological diversity, monolingual classrooms require artificial input in form either explicit or implicit instruction prepare students for “real world” international communication. Such not only increases intelligibility non-standard accents but also promotes greater tolerance diversity World Englishes. This pa...

Abstract It has been argued that prosodic features (e.g. stress, rhythm, or intonation) contribute significantly to production and comprehension among speakers of English. While it is easy come across studies focus on these in native Englishes, the same cannot be said Englishes outside speaker contexts, especially regarding rhythm academic discourse, although such results greatly enhance our un...

The Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) framework has been proposed as a practical guidance for researchers and practitioners to reconsider revise their current teaching practices recognize global status of English in multilingual communities (Galloway & Rose, 2018). However, the GELT still requires extensive evidence from stakeholders field language teaching. This study aims design e...

Americanization has been described as one of the major sociocultural processes language change currently affecting varieties English worldwide; it is generally linked to post-World War II rise United States global superpower status in political, military, economic, and cultural terms. Owing their immediate geographical proximity, Bahamas always had closer demographic, cultural, institutional li...

1 Editorializing as a discursive practice has received some attention in the linguistic literature. One study that looked at newspaper editorials was Reynolds (1993), which investigated the speech acts performed in three languages, namely, American English, Egyptian Arabic, and Egyptian English. Using Searle’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study found pragmatic features unique to each language ...