Indigenization of English in many Asian ESL countries and partial learning of English in EFL countries are two major hindrances to Asian Englishes today. Although Englishes are growing day by day, we have not had any common ground on which we can compare our English with other English varieties. The authors of this article were organizing members of the Committee of Revising the JACET List of B...

Abstract In English as an additional language writing, error correction or feedback is most commonly referred to ‘written corrective (WCF)’. The emphasis on ‘correctness’ in ‘WCF’ suggests native-speakerist standards norms, which are controversial increasingly globalized world. this Forum article, I discuss the problems associated with WCF from a Global Englishes perspective and suggest broaden...

Over the past few decades, notion of World Englishes has achieved much attention among linguists, language teachers, and other professionals. The present study explores impact these trends have had on university education in field English philology culture, focusing programmes run by Applied Languages Faculty, University Economics Bratislava, Slovakia. Our research was designed to gain insights...

Adverbs have become the ragbag in grammar in which all uncategorized items are relegated. Over the years, there have been several studies (e.g., Biber et al., 1999; Halliday, 1994; Hasselgard, 2010; Huddleston & Pullum, 2002; Quirk et al., 1985; Sinclair, 1990) that looked into the syntactic and semantic functions of adverbs. This paper focuses on what Quirk et al. (1985) call ‘disjuncts’ (whic...

This paper aims to explore the paradigm of Global Englishes through perceptions held towards it by university English teachers in Saudi Arabia. Due reasons, such as globalization and colonization, presence can be found all countries throughout world. Some countries, Arabia have not yet fully institutionalized language which places them expanding circle, where is currently seen pedagogically tau...

With the current position of English language in globalized world, individuals from different backgrounds meet on common ground English, which serves function lingua franca. In this connection, currently, a variety Englishes are sight, and each speaker contributes to these varieties with his or her cultural being. Considering limited number research studies focusing curriculum design field worl...