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This paper examines how second English language learners use English at the expense of their traditional languages. It also examines how second language acquisition influences one’s cultural
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Aug 7, 2007 · This article traces the major historical moves in the theorising of English, particularly in relation to its teaching, on its path towards globality, analysing how successive theories have located culture in, and subsequently displaced culture from, their models of language.
- Martin A. Kayman
- 2004
Jul 29, 2021 · They were consistent as a group to describe two main perspectives: English is a language rooted in its original cultural base; and, English is a global language with abstract cultural associations and a purveyor of all cultures.
- Colum Ruane
- 2021
Jun 3, 2015 · My contribution examines the role of these public and private institutions in the consolidation and expansion of negative images of the other in the invention of an English America for anglophone Americans.
- Roberto A. Valdeón
- 2015
But the growth of linguistic influence through political expansion was already on the wane. Far more important for the English language, in the post-war world, was the way in which the cultural legacies of the colonial era and the technological revolution were being felt on an international scale.
- David Crystal
- 2003
Jan 18, 2022 · Vindicating Gramsci, Rosemary Salomone’s “The Rise of English” explores the language wars being fought all over the world, revealing the political, economic and cultural stakes behind these ...
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