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Liu, Yanhong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; May, Stephen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia. However, these studies relied on a small data set and the findings suffered severe limitations. To overcome such shortcomings, we self-built a corpus that has 40 volumes/books of over one million words to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Lawrence Jun – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project, Departments of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Having a BA with a major in English from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Professor…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Online Submission, 2004
This paper reports on two phases of a study of a group of advanced TEFL (teachers-of-English-as-a-foreign-language) students. To raise their awareness of the importance of discourse intonation while they were receiving teacher training, this study focuses on examining their sociocultural and psychological inclinations in the choice of phonological…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, English (Second Language), Phonology, Sociocultural Patterns