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The Acquisition Of Spanish Pronunciation By Welsh Learners: Transfer From A Regional Variety Of English Into Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
The Acquisition Of Spanish Pronunciation By Welsh Learners: Transfer From A Regional Variety Of English Into Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Language teachers agree that the phonetic/phonological distance between a learner’s L1 and L2 is of vital importance in mastering the sounds of the L2; however, no attention is given to the phonetic/phonological distance between the regional variety of the speaker’s L1 and the L2. After comparing linguistic peculiarities of English, and of Welsh English in particular, with Castilian Spanish, the author proceeds to study the interlanguage of advanced students of Spanish from Wales. This helps to explain positive and negative transfer from this variety of English into Spanish and assists in producing a catalogue of the interferences to be corrected. …
Would 'The Making Of The English Working Class' Get Made Today?, Rowan Cahill
Would 'The Making Of The English Working Class' Get Made Today?, Rowan Cahill
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
It is fifty years since leftist publisher Victor Gollancz published The Making of the English Working Class by English historian Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993). During 2013, this event has been, and is being, commemorated globally in political and scholarly conferences and journals. My dilapidated copy is the Penguin revised edition (1968), purchased in 1970. Still in print, and with more than a million copies sold worldwide, Thompson’s hugely influential doorstop book is regarded as a pivotal exploration of social history, as much an historical classic as it is a literary classic. The book runs to some 900 pages and over …
Working With Global English: The Experience Of English Language Teachers In A University Language College, Peter Kell, Gillian Vogl
Working With Global English: The Experience Of English Language Teachers In A University Language College, Peter Kell, Gillian Vogl
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Through in-depth interviews and focus groups with English Language teachers employed at a university bridging college, this paper explores the challenges that teachers face in preparing international students for university life in Australia. Findings from this research suggest that the narrow business focused objectives of the English Language market undermine more holistic approaches to teaching English. A more holistic approach is required to respond to the social and cultural needs of students while they are studying in Australia. Nevertheless, this research suggests that regardless of the instrumental and reductionist neo liberal philosophy which informs these programs, meaningful intercultural dialogue, critical …