The World Englishes (WE) paradigm, by challenging the traditional, monolithic native-speaker norm and advocating instead linguistic diversity identity, reconceptualized use users of English in post-colonial globalized societies. WE thus has direct implications for language teaching; however, bridging theory practice is a task teachers scholars because changes innovations that paradigm requires....

The current study employs a contrastive approach to analyze five consonantal features (TH stopping/ fronting, L vocalization, [n, l]/[s, ?] conflation, /r/, /v/, /w/ substitution and consonant cluster modification [CCM]) of Hong Kong English (HKE) from 37 online sound clips 29 speakers. Compared the traditional approach, uses world Englishes paradigm data, which aligns more with recent movement...

With the current position of English language in globalized world, individuals from different backgrounds meet on common ground English, which serves function lingua franca. In this connection, currently, a variety Englishes are sight, and each speaker contributes to these varieties with his or her cultural being. Considering limited number research studies focusing curriculum design field worl...

The present study seeks to investigate the attitudes of Moroccan EFL learners (MEFLLs) towards different varieties English speech (World Englishes (WE)). utilises a direct method attitude measurement as study’s participants are directly asked about their own explicit six speech[1] (namely, American English, British Indian Filipino Japanese and Thai English). A sample 544 MEFLLs was recruited in...