This chapter discusses the statistics of English across Asia, with reference to both the
numbers of English users in the region, and the measurement of levels of English …

Previous language attitude research indicates that presenting speech forms allows listeners
to index information about and attach social meaning to the perceived group (s) of speakers …

The expansion of the English language produced by non-native speakers has, in recent
decades, been discussed by applied linguists from various theoretical perspectives. The …

This article considers the contributions of Indigenous knowledges to educational research. It
proposes the term comparative Indigenous education research (CIER) in an effort to …

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast
Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages …

From its founding, The International Research Foundation for English Language Education
(TIRF) has provided funding for research on English language teaching and learning around …

This chapter reviews sociolinguistic research on South America's Indigenous speech
communities during the past 15 years. We focus on research findings from the Quechua …

There exists a dearth of research investigating how listeners use their knowledge of
variation in their L2 to categorise speaker provenance from stimulus speech. The present …

Media coverage of water events in transboundary river basins reflects the views of both
riparian countries and beyond, and the conflict and cooperation dynamics could be biased …

The essay addresses the issue of which cultural tools are used in order to index particular
ethnic identifications within an interethnic environment. It is analysed how the Inle Lake …