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Published in Multilingua
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Multilingua
This article explores some dimensions of how the role of the English language in Norway has been discursively constructed in newspapers during recent years, based on the analysis of data from the five-year period 2008–2012. The analysis is conducted using a specialised corpus containing 3,743 newspaper articles which were subjected to corpus-based ...
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
After achieving democracy in 1994, South Africa experienced major socio-political reforms in a number of areas, including a new constitution, language policy reforms, and new national curricula for schools. Due to the perceived instrumental value of English, many local schools rejected indigenous languages as medium of instruction in favour of Engl...
Published in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
This study investigates whether English-medium instruction (EMI) has an impact on Chinese undergraduates' English proficiency and affect in English learning and use. A cross-section of 136 sophomores and juniors were drawn from an English-medium and a parallel Chinese-medium program. Data included: (a) participants' scores on two national standardi...
Published in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching