The Philippines is considered one of the largest English-speaking nations in the world. In
fact, English is one of the official languages in the Philippines. But throughout the years, a …

Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular
informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has …

Native-speakerism in English language teaching has resulted in discrimination against
nonnative English-speaking teachers, but its influences in private online language …

Recent studies indicate that many foreign students now choose to go to the Philippines for
university and language education. In this paper, we examine how Filipino Teachers' …

In today's globalized world, language learners gain inspiration for who they want to be and
the community to which they want to belong through unconventional ways. This study …

English is not only a global language, but also a global commodity (Pennycook, 1994; Block
and Cameron, 2002; Cameron, 2012). The English language teaching (ELT) industry …

Drawing on the concepts of desire from applied linguistics and Deleuzian perspectives, this
study investigates the desires encapsulated in a Japanese woman's English learning …

This paper uses content analysis to analyse a set of websites of English language teaching
companies in the Philippines and highlights the contradictions between the language …

This study investigates the attitude of teachers who are aware of the growing concept of
English as an International Language (EIL) towards the EIL-based learning and teaching …

This research examines the visibility of English in the schoolscape of two Israeli teacher
training colleges. English in Israel is part of a complex, multilingual reality. Not an official …