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Xiaoyi Zhang; M. Obaidul Hamid – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Many studies have reported language problems faced by international students in cross-cultural study-abroad settings. The present study investigated Chinese international students' linguistic insecurity during their study-abroad in Australia, and the strategies that they deployed to manage this. Based on interviews with ten students from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning
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M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The ideological role of English, beyond its instrumental value, is reported to be immense. British colonial rule deployed English as an ideological tool which facilitated colonial subjugation and religious conversion. Connections between English and evangelism have widened in the postcolonial and globalising world, leading to labelling English as…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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M. Obaidul Hamid; Peter Crosthwaite – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Children's writing development is a matter of concern for Australian and other education systems. Factors related to the nature of writing as a literate skill, school writing pedagogy, and diminishing role of writing in a screen-dominant environment may account for this educational concern. What happens in a child's writing when immigrant parents…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Immigrants