Introduction. This study adopts a Global Englishes perspective to examine dimensions within beliefs about English language held by Mainland Chinese university students. It also assesses whether and how these impact the students’ motivation learn (L2 motivation). Materials Methods. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 460 students learning as Foreign Language at large public in China. The ...

This position paper highlights the importance of suprasegmental training in secondary language (L2) acquisition. Suprasegmental features are manifested in terms of acoustic cues and convey important information about linguistic and information structures. Hence, L2 learners must harness appropriate suprasegmental productions for effective communication. However, this learning process is influen...

one of the by-products of globalization is the need of english spread as a lingua franca. according to the linguistic relativism and world englishes theories, one expects then, a certain proportion of anglo-american cultural values and viewpoints will be projected to the outer circle societies. while this transmission could enhance the cultural quotient (cq) of the learners, it can also bear ne...

This article examines whether teaching English in Bangladeshi secondary schools is a blessing or curse. The paper seeks to ask soul-searching questions; reiterates the voices and findings of previous scholars evokes need look at rot within our system order engender genuine practical transformations. It adopts desk research methodology mostly draws data from review 50 secondary-based sources. ar...

Abstract This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English admission requirements. Universities are today caught between order of nation state and that corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national international students. tension produces conflicting processes (converse) racialization linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct proficie...

Abstract Despite notable recent exceptions (for instance Funke, 2020), corpus-based research into South Asian Englishes has so far concentrated on structural features. Thus, empirical pragmatic in said varieties is still sparse, although there been increasing interest variational pragmatics world (Schneider & Barron, 2008). For instance, requests have examined both native and non-native of ...