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The Relevance of Terms like ESL and EFL in a Linguistically Complex World ...
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The Relevance of Terms like ESL and EFL in a Linguistically Complex World ...
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For a long time, ELT (‘English language teaching’) scholars and practitioners have used terms like ‘ESL’ (‘English as a second language’) and ‘EFL’ (‘English as a foreign language’) unquestioningly to describe the English used by people outside the so-called ENL (‘English as a native language’) circle. For example, ELT practitioners may conveniently refer to students from places like China, Vietnam and Thailand as EFL students. Interestingly, we find counterparts of such terms in ‘World Englishes’ studies; Braj Kachru’s ‘Inner Circle English’, ‘Outer Circle English’ and ‘Expanding Circle English’ essentially refer to ENL ESL and EFL respectively. Despite the popularity of such terms in scholarly circles, the problems associated with their use have not often been explored in depth. Nevertheless, some authors have described such problems. For example, commenting on the distinction between ESL and EFL, Nayar (1997, p. 10) states, “a great deal of referential fuzziness within the two and denotative overlap ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6411151
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“Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion
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The particles of Singapore English: a semantic and cultural interpretation
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In: Journal of Pragmatics (2015)
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The particles of Singapore English: a semantic and cultural interpretation
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In: Journal of Pragmatics (2015)
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Cultural scripts, ways of speaking and perceptions of personal autonomy: Anglo English vs Singapore English
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In: Intercultural Pragmatics (2015)
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Cultural scripts, ways of speaking and perceptions of personal autonomy: Anglo English vs Singapore English
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In: Intercultural Pragmatics (2015)
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Why you so Singlish one?: A semantic and cultural interpretation of the Singapore English particle one
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In: Language in Society (2015)
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Why you so Singlish one?: A semantic and cultural interpretation of the Singapore English particle one
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In: Language in Society (2015)
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Rezension zu: Discourse markers in Colombian Spanish. A study in polysemy: Catherine E. Travis, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2005
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In: Journal of Pragmatics (JoP) 38 (2006) 3, 469-472
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