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Romani (Gypsy) Child Rearing: Work, Marriage, School, And Property, Mary Christianakis
Romani (Gypsy) Child Rearing: Work, Marriage, School, And Property, Mary Christianakis
Mary Christianakis
No abstract provided.
Teacher Research As A Feminist Act, Mary Christianakis
Teacher Research As A Feminist Act, Mary Christianakis
Mary Christianakis
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The Hegemony Of English As A Global Language, Gulbahar Beckett, Yan Guo
The Hegemony Of English As A Global Language, Gulbahar Beckett, Yan Guo
Gulbahar Beckett
English, the first language of about 400 million people in Britain, the United States
and the Commonwealth, has become the dominant global language of
communication, business, aviation, entertainment, diplomacy, and the Internet. As
such, an estimated number of over a billion people speak it as their second or
foreign language. These second- and foreign-language speakers of English include
millions of migrant and immigrant English as a Second Language (ESL) schoolage
students (see Faltis, 2006) and over 560,000 international ESL university
students in the United States (Open Doors, 2006) and over 137,000 in Canada
(OECD, 2003). About a billion others in …