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The domain concept, originally suggested by Schmidt-Rohr in the 1930s (as credited in Fishman?s writings in the 1970s), was an attempt to sort out di...

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This paper offers a timely and critical re-examination of the "domain" concept, a foundational construct in sociolinguistics, particularly as it relat...

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Annjo K. Greenall

To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian

Linguistics

The ?fast forward? button for the influx of English loanwords1 into the Scandinavian languages has long since been pressed. The views on this phenome...

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This paper, "To translate or not to translate: Attitudes to English loanwords in Norwegian," offers a timely and highly relevant exploration of a pers...

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Miriam Schildkraut

Linguistic socialization and social identity Arab students in a mixed college in Israel

Sociology

The following article brings results from an error analysis of data collected from Arab students whose L1 is Arabic and L2 is Hebrew. The subjects pa...

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This article presents an intriguing study into the linguistic socialization and social identity of Arab students learning Hebrew as an L2 within a uni...

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Karin Risager

Languaculture as a key concept in language and culture teaching

Pedagogy

Are language and culture inseparable, or are they separable? Neither of these positions is tenable, and in order to find a solution to this seeming p...

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This paper addresses a foundational and often debated question in language studies: the intricate relationship between language and culture. By arguin...

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Ulla Lundgren

Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English An opportunity for Swedish compulsory education

Pedagogy

The aim of this study is to examine the prospects of developing intercultural understanding through English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Swedis...

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This study, "Intercultural understanding in teaching and learning English: An opportunity for Swedish compulsory education," addresses a highly pertin...

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Maud Ciekanski

Towards the development of a plurilingual and pluricultural competence

Andragogy

In 2001, the CRAPEL ran an experimental course in both English and Spanish for French-speaking adult beginners. This course, which was aimed at learn...

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This paper presents an intriguing and highly relevant experimental study conducted by CRAPEL, investigating an integrated approach to teaching two for...

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Virginie Andr?, Desir?e Castillo

The ?Competent Foreigner? A new model for foreign language didactics?

Pedagogy

The traditional schema of the language learning-teaching situation is being increasingly challenged by didacticians, sociolinguists and cognitive psy...

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This article proposes a timely and relevant new model for foreign language didactics, addressing the ongoing re-evaluation of fundamental concepts wit...

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Yuko Taniguchi

Affect and the EFL Classroom: Language Contact in Addressing

Education

This study investigates affect or affective elements between the teacher and students in EFL classroom interaction. Affect is regarded as a linguisti...

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This study promises a valuable contribution to the understanding of affect in second language acquisition, specifically within the context of EFL clas...

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Alexandra M?nch, Doris Stolberg

?Zwei languages zusammenputten?1: Bilingual ways of expressing bicultural identities

Linguistics

The availability of linguistic resources plays a crucial role when sociocultural identities are constructed in interpersonal interaction. When lookin...

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This submission presents a fascinating and timely investigation into the intricate relationship between linguistic resources and the construction of s...

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Paul McIlvenny, Pirkko Raudaskoski

Figuring the transnational ?Child-to-be-adopted?: The web as a virtual sociocultural contact zone for intercountry adoption

Sociology

This paper presents our research which is part of a larger project that explores how to track and understand the linguistic, discursive and sociocult...

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This paper, "Figuring the transnational ?Child-to-be-adopted?: The web as a virtual sociocultural contact zone for intercountry adoption," presents a...