Language learning is not only about achieving communicative purposes, but also entails investing in a second language and struggling with identity re-construction, which is shaped and positioned by sociocultural institutions and ideological structures. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence a Filipin...
The research explored the operation of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in a specific tertiary academic-learning context within a subordinate-common language position (English-centric) and a relatively equal and secondary language position (plurilingual) model of accommodation and its implications on communicative effe...
While an increasing number of sociolingusitic studies draw their attention to small language education, our knowledge about how learning small languages might empower students’ employment experiences remains under-explored. Adopting linguistic insecurity (Cho, 2015) as a theoretical framework, this study examines the l...
This study examines how Japanese elementary school students conceptualise English, its users, and cultural difference during the early stages of formal language education. Drawing on questionnaire data from 151 students in Grades 3-6 in a private, urban-area school, the analysis identifies both developmental shifts and...
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