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Direct linkCsanád Bodó; Noémi Fazakas – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu; Tsang, Samuel C. S. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper proposes a tripartite model describing the lexical categories across different registers and levels of formality in the Cantonese language in contemporary Hong Kong: (1) native Cantonese words; (2) Sino-Cantonese words, and (3) Anglo-Cantonese words. Examples of authentic Cantonese use were used to illustrate the histories and etymology…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
Canagarajah, Suresh – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
The shifts underway in contemporary social conditions call for a new alignment between the specializations constituting English Studies: namely, literature, applied linguistics, and rhetoric and composition. Postcolonial social movements have generated new language, textual, and literary practices. These developments bring to the fore practices…
Descriptors: Social Change, Linguistic Borrowing, Specialization, Literature
Abasi, Ali R.; Akbari, Nahal – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
Research has increasingly pointed to a range of cognitive and social reasons behind ESL students' transgressive textual appropriation, defined as students' source use that contravenes acceptable borrowing practices. However, one aspect that has received little attention is the role of the immediate pedagogical context in this type of textual…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Carnes, Jim – Teaching Tolerance, 1994
This article explains the use of the origins of American English and the dictionary to teach multiculturalism to elementary school students. It suggests classroom activities that help students explore the cultural roots behind words and appreciate the ways words have been created. Esperanto and the development of an international language are also…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Education, Language Enrichment
Canagarajah, A. Suresh – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2007
Global English is under contestation. Although some consider lingua franca English (LFE) as a neutral medium or code that does not belong to any specific culture or nationality, others see the deceptive nature of this linguistic globalization. Along with Spring (2007/this issue), they see global English as embodying partisan interests and values.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Morphemes, Multilingualism, Global Approach
Download full textKavanagh, Eric, Ed. – 2000
Papers on language research in this volume include the following: Pour une comparaison des voyelles nasals du Quebec et du Haut-Jura: observations, methodologie et outils infomatiques (A Comparison of Quebec and Haut-Jura's Nasal Vowels: Observations, Methodologies, and Instrumentation) (Vincent Arnaud and Claude Paradis); Le negociation du sens…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Databases, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
