Globalization and Asian Englishes

Saraceni, Mario

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Is English an Asian Language?

Kirkpatrick

Wang

2020

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The Asian Corpus of English OverviewThis chapter provides an introduction to the Asian Corpus of English (ACE)how it was collected and why and how it will be used in this book. As such, this chapter is relatively technical and will be of particular interest to those readers who wish to undertake research using the Asian Corpus of English.ACE was designed to be comparable with the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) (Seidlhofer 2011). The participants recorded in ACE are primarily, but not exclusively, first-language speakers of Asian languages, while the participants in VOICE are primarily, but not exclusively, first-language speakers of European languages. ACE contains some one million words of naturally occurring, non-scripted face-to-face interactions (around 120 hours of recorded speech) of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in Asia. A wide range of speech events have been included in ACE. These include interviews, press conferences, service encounters, seminar discussions, working group discussions, workshop discussions, meetings, panels, question-and-answer sessions and conversations. The transcribed speech events are categorised under five major settings with their percentage of the corpus data in brackets: education (25 per cent); leisure (10 per cent); professional business (20 per cent); professional organisations; (35 per cent); and professional research/science (10 per cent). The corpus data have been tagged following the transcription conventions originally developed by the VOICE team. These tags enable users to obtain a clear picture of the transcribed data (e.g., pauses, overlaps, pronunciation variations & coinages), and make ACE and VOICE comparable. In October 2014, ACE was officially launched online. Users can browse the corpus data according to the five types of setting (previously mentioned) or according to the various data collection sites (Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, Mainland China and Taiwan). A Web concordancer has been developed which allows users to search any word/phrase in ACE. Other than searching the corpus, users can also listen to the sound recording of certain ACE files. These functions have made it possible for researchers and teachers/learners to explore the ACE data for various research and pedagogical purposes.

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Is English an Asian Language?

Kirkpatrick

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2020

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Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*

Zhang

Lau

2021

Early Education and Development

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Malay and English Language Contact in Social Media Texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

McLellan

2022

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This paper focuses on aspects of language contact, specifically Malay and English in the domain of social media. Key components of the theoretical framework are world Englishes being by definition code-mixed varieties, and the complementary notions of nativization (of English) and englishization (of Malay, in this case). Texts examined and analyzed are from Whatsapp chats and groups, with the consent of all participants, and from public social media sites in the Malay world, mostly Negara Brunei Darussalam (henceforth Brunei) but also Malaysia. Brunei is known for having a very high percentage of social media use per head of population, with especially high levels of use of Instagram and Facebook, as well as discussion forums such as Reddit. In their social media interactions Bruneians and Malaysians have a range of language choices, from monolingual English to monolingual Malay, and varying degrees of code-mixing or translanguaging. Many Bruneians and Malaysians are multilingual, and thus may have more than two languages as resources to draw on. Analysis of threads of discussion forum postings on the same topic demonstrate the multilingual repertoire of participants, for whom any of the available language choices are unmarked. This is in part owing to the use of English as one medium of education alongside Malay: consistently in Brunei since 1985, inconsistently in Malaysia since 1963. The conclusion of the paper raises two questions: whether it is valid to posit the language of social media as a new variety comprising both local and global influences and inputs, and whether social media is a driver of change in varieties of English in Southeast Asia.

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Globalization and Asian Englishes

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Is English an Asian Language?

Is English an Asian Language?

Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*

Malay and English Language Contact in Social Media Texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

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Globalization and Asian Englishes

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Is English an Asian Language?

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Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis*

Malay and English Language Contact in Social Media Texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

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Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*