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When Visible Minorities Lead Visible Majorities
In the first part of this chapter, we clarify our use of “visible majority” and “visible minority” and distinguish between women and minorities, as...
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ELF for Global Mindsets? Theory and Practice of ELT in Formal Education in Japan
In these two decades, ELT in Japan has been shifting from teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to teaching English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)...
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The relations of morphological awareness with vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension for Korean-speaking middle school students
The aim of this study is to explore the relation of morphological awareness to vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension for middle school...
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Vocabulary and Acquisition
Disclaimer: The summaries in this chapter were generated from Springer Nature publications using extractive AI auto-summarization: An...
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Mentalese: The Structureless Language of Thought Hypothesis (L0)
Conceiving the structureless nature of the language of thought—mentaleseMentalese is important for explaining the concept of English...
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Below the surface: The application of implicit morpho-graphic regularities to novel word spelling
Previous corpus studies have shown that the English spelling system is ‘morpho-graphic’ (Berg and Aronoff
2017 ) in that affixes are spelt in a...
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Theoretical Underpinning
The premise of this book is the intersection between language ideologies and language usage in South African television. This chapter aims to connect...
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Intercultural Relationships
What is the language of love? In intercultural relationships, language is an important basis on which two people build intimacy. Taking the time to...
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Orality and Identity in the Writing Practices of Politicians, Celebrities, and Activists on Lebanese Twitter
This article explores the practices of different social groups in writing, script, orthography, and spelling on Twitter during the Lebanese...
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The indexical character of epistemic modality
We assume a central thesis about modal auxiliaries due to Angelika Kratzer, the modal base presupposition: natural language expressions that contain...
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Sociolinguistics: Regional and social varieties of English
Language as a social phenomenon: Similar to pragmatics, the field of sociolinguistics studies language use in real life. It is an illusion to think...
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Childhood Experiences of FLP: 6 Case Studies of French Heritage Speakers in England
This chapter presents each of the six case studies in turn. Every case study report starts with a description of family’s language practices,...
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The Inheritance of Language and Bilingualism
The human inheritanceInheritance of language is a unique feature of beingBeing human. We are also endowed with another ability for using two or more...
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Honorifics without [hon]
Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural values (e.g. French recruits plural vous for polite...
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We Have Never Been Universal: How Speaking a Language Becomes a Prefigurative Practice
This chapter unpacks what Esperanto means to its speakers and how they render the language useful through everyday practices of horizontal knowledge...
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Literature Review
This chapter reviews the literature concerning lexis and EA in SLA research. The chapter consists of six main sections. First, lexis and its...
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Expert, Native or Lingua Franca? Paradigm Choices in Novice Academic Writer Support
Hel** novice writers engage with disciplinary discourses is a key task for EAP practitioners. Recently, genre approaches to EAP writing instruction...
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What Does ‘Teaching English as a Lingua Franca’ Mean? Insights from University ELF Instructors
With the growing international use of English, many university ELT programs in Japan embrace the concept of ‘English as an international language’...
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The Off-Duty Expectations of International Volunteer Language Teachers: A Middling Transnational Perspective
This chapter examines the off-duty expectations of three international volunteer Japanese language teachers (JLTs) who were soon to depart for South...
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The lexicography of Dravidian languages
This chapter discusses the lexicons and dictionaries of the Dravidian languages, a family of 25 languages spoken by about 250 million people,...