WINDS OF CHANGE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE – AIR OF PERIL FOR<br /> NATIVE SPEAKERS?

English today is one of the most hybrid and rapidly changing languages in the world. New users of the language are not just passively absorbing, but actively shaping it, breeding a variety of regional Englishes, as well...

SHOULD WE USE AMERICAN ENGLISH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILLS?

CONCEPTUALISING CLASSROOM INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE

This article offers a preliminary conceptualisation of classroom interactional competence (CIC). Placing interaction at the centre of language learning, the paper considers the various practices available to both teache...

CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND WRITING ABILITY: DELVING INTO FLUENCY, ACCURACY AND COMPLEXITY

Over the recent decades, cultural intelligence, now referred to as CQ has become a burgeoning area of research in the domain of business and management. Given the paucity of research on the effects of CQ on second or for...

TELLING TALES: DISCURSIVE NARRATIVES OF ESOL MIGRANT IDENTITIES

This paper concerns migrant identity construction in an ESOL course. Taking a poststructuralist perspective, identity is viewed a fluid process of ongoing struggle between different subject positions that individuals tak...