This study explores how Community Language Learning (CLL) as an approach can act as a decolonization method for learning English. We investigate differences in effectiveness among teenagers from 13 to 19 and adults ...

Automating graphic skills has the potential to help language learners perform well in writing skills. Graphic skills are essential to automate low capacity learners in ESL classrooms. Reading and writing are graphic ...

Code switching has become a common phenomenon in L2 classrooms. Most bilingual Language teachers switch codes in the classroom. Ghaderi et al write that, “code-switching, despite the historical debate, serves various ...

Standard Sri Lankan English is a unique variety that has distinctive features that differ from the other varieties of English. These distinctive characteristics can be identified in various linguistics domains including ...

Language tests are administered worldwide, and their pros and cons can be identified from both the test takers and designers. A good language test should be practical, comprehensive, relevant, and balanced, with a ...

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) has become a topic of concern in the field of English Language Teaching at present. This concern has risen due to the seemingly less incorporation of culture within the field. In ...

English has become a denationalized language which no longer is a property of the tiny island England. Even though English education has been implemented through Macaulay’s ideology of creating a class to stand-in between ...

The theory and practice of domestication and foreignization in translation have sparked extensive debate among scholars and translators especially in textual studies. This study analyses two Tamil translations by ...

In this talk I explore the productive messiness of language and cultural understanding in English language teaching, drawing on Global Englishes and decolonial research. I will challenge the dominance of Anglophone ...

English Language Teaching (ELT) in the post-colonial era has gone through a process of decolonization. Kumaravadivelu (2003) defines decolonization as a complex process of taking control of the principles and practices ...