Intercultural Communication: Teaching Vocabulary

TL;DR: The future of language in China is under threat, according to experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of Indian cultural appropriation in the U.S. legal system and evaluate these claims vis-a-vis prevailing legal doctrine and offer a normative view of solutions.

TL;DR: The authors describes the development of linguistic ethnography in Britain over the last 5-15 years, and the U.K. Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) has emerged from socio-and applied linguistics, bringing together a number of formative traditions (inter alia, Interactional Sociolinguistics, New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis).

TL;DR: Although racial residential segregation and colorism, independently, strongly shape the lives of Latinas, previous studies rarely bridged both lines of research directly This paper begins to fill the gap as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors describe the development of their own thinking over more than forty years of serious involvement with language teaching and learning, using a handout for a course in Applied Linguistics in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: Adaptive traits, such as skin color, have frequently been used to define races in humans, but such adaptive traits reflect the underlying environmental factor to which they are adaptive and not overall genetic differentiation, and different adaptive traits define discordant groups.

TL;DR: The goal of Learners of English in multilingual and lingua franca setting should be multilingual performance and profeciency, not an idealized native-likeProfeciency.