This paper discusses Tactical Iraqi, a video game developed at the University of Southern California with funding from the U.S. military that is designed to accelerate a learner’s acquisition of spoken Arabic to assist in the rapid deployment of soldiers into volatile tactical situations. This paper analyzes three distinct aspects of the Tactical Iraqi mission game: how “trust” is constituted i...

This paper explored crucial factors to achieve sustainable development of early language education by examining the relationship between two dimensions family policy—language ideologies and practices—as well as policy children’s narrative macrostructure. Data were collected via a performance test questionnaire survey 131 kindergartners from 10 kindergartens in Chinese city. Structural equation ...

This study examines the effects of two interethnic ideologies (assimilation and multiculturalism) on in-group favoritism and discrimination intention toward immigrants. Specifically, this study aims to test the concomitant impact of these two ideologies on intergroup biases in order to affirm whether these two paths are related to intergroup bias. Moreover, this study is designed to extend prev...

The notion of linguistic imperialism analyzes the dominance language used by powerful over other languages world. This endangers indigenous world and promotes myths about necessity learning English language. It also tends to promote Western ideologies culture. present study has focused on ways imperialized education system Pakistan ideological cultural objectives English-speaking countries. dat...

Foreign language education planning (FLEP) has been caught in the political turmoil and hustle of ongoing economic reform in the People’s Republic of China for several decades. This paper situates a recurring instrumentalist discourse of FLEP in China in the underlying language ideologies and historical contexts from 1949 to present day. Utilizing Cooper’s (1989) guiding question of “who makes ...

Ideologies are the representations of social practices resulted from particular perspectives members a society. Social media has been credited with playing major part in projection some hidden ideologies. The study tries to analyze how language is manipulated construction ideologies and these represent or challenge sociocultural norms Moreover, it also investigates role propagation circulation ...