Learners’ dictionaries aim to give clear indications of meaning, but not all aspects of meaning can be neatly packaged up in definitions – even without the constraints of a restricted defining vocabulary. It is difficult, for example, to deal effectively with connotation and culture-bound meanings; to show evaluations clearly and consistently; or to explain even-handedly the ideological undercu...

Abstract The study presented in this article looks at the effects of changes national language policies following break-up Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia on teaching Serbo-Croatian or a “language which is simultaneously one and more than one” as foreign language. explores how ideologies conflicting attitudes towards standard languages, recorded both within nation-states across nation-sta...

This study examines how Greek-Cypriot students aged 12 to 18, an understudied group of students, construct their ethnic identity in a complex setting such as Cyprus and what motivates the students in the selection of ethnic identity labels. The choice to focus on students aged 12-18 was made on the hypothesis that young children, who did not experience the 1974 war in Cyprus, may have a differe...

Abstract This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English admission requirements. Universities are today caught between order of nation state and that corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national international students. tension produces conflicting processes (converse) racialization linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct proficie...

This study examines how language ideologies are negotiated and navigated in a linguistically diverse kindergarten group Germany, focusing on the multilingual practices of teachers children. Drawing data generated during 3months focused linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, I analyse situations which children actively include languages other than German into discourse through, e.g. translation requ...

As a former Portuguese colony, Macao is the only region in China where Cantonese, a variety of Chinese, and English, an international language, are enjoying de facto official statuses, with Putonghua being a quasi-official language and Portuguese being another official language. Recently, with an increasing number of Mainland Chinese students crossing the border to pursue their tertiar...

Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...