This paper sets out to investigate Chinese university students’ ELF awareness, which is conceptualised with regards to language education. The study, based on 24 semistructured interviews, demonstrates that Chinese university students are still framing their understanding of English with the affiliation to idealised notions of monolingual origin of native English, despite being situated in a ch...

Research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. The thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of Ghana with the introduction of the use of English among Ghanaians. The coexistence of both Ghanaian languages and Engli...

The present study aimed to investigate professional success among Iranian EFL teachers in two different teaching contexts namely high schools and language institutes concerning their years of teaching experience, gender, level of education and socioeconomic status. Data were gathered from among 61 teachers and 600 students chosen from various private English language institutes and high schools...

a country like iran is a remarkable example of monolingualism, bilingualism, and multilingualism. there is hardly any valid argument against the potential magnitude of various forms of linguistic, sociocultural, anthropological, etc research studies conductible in iran due to this immense linguistic diversity. this plus the fact that primary, junior high, and high school education all over this...

Racism is still exercised in various social, political and academic spheres remains to be deconstructed by constituting new discourses. One of these deconstructive discourses has been critical race theory which can regarded as a productive realm where the oppressed individuals or communities have found opportunity address socio-political issues take collective action necessary. This study aims ...