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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
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ISSN 1502-7694 · Göteborg University · 594 artikel di indeks
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The Others’ English: Othering Through Stereotyping in the Language Introduction Program in Sweden
This paper investigates discourse practices in English-language education within The Language Introduction Program (LIP) in Sweden. The data consist of field notes and transcripts of five meetings with the English Subject Group at LIP (ESGL), a teacher conference for LIP teachers, and a meeting for…
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An Intentional Word Learning Task: Theoretical Foundation and Evidence-Based Suggestions
Although the Education Act (SFS 2010:800) specifies that teaching should be based in research and/or best practice, publications suggest a lack of evidence underpinning the teaching of English in Sweden (Bergström 2023; Elgemark, Henry, and Jansson 2023). Vocabulary researchers agree that…
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Affordances of the English Language Subject in Systematizing Cross-Curricular Teaching Practices
For most students in Europe, English is the first formally learned foreign language, allowing them to draw on their existing English knowledge when learning additional languages. Simultaneously, English can exert a dominant influence that overshadows other languages. Cross-curricular teaching…
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Linguistic Justice in the Classroom: Teaching English in Diversity
This article examines the management of linguistic diversity in English-language classroom contexts from a linguistic justice viewpoint, which is concerned with the equitable and fair treatment of the multiple languages that coexist in a given social context. The analysis presented here shifts the…
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What Makes a Theory Good? Paradigm Shifts in L2 Motivation Research
This article explores model construction in research on motivation for language learning. Drawing on Kuhn’s (1962, 1970) theory of scientific revolutions, it examines critiques of two paradigmatic models: the Socio Educational Model of Second Language Acquisition (Gardner 1985) and the L2…
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Intercultural Competences and Language Assessment
In recent years, intercultural competence (IC) has gained prominence in foreign language (FL) education, reflecting broader societal shifts toward global interconnectedness and the need for culturally responsive pedagogy. This article investigates how FL teachers in Denmark conceptualize, teach…
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Agreeing, Accounting, and Affiliating: L2 Interactional Competence in High-Scoring L2 English Learners’ Agreement Sequences
Research on what should count as evidence of foreign/second language interactional competence (L2 IC) has grown exponentially, particularly drawing on work in Conversation Analysis (CA) (Hall, Hellerman, and Pekarek Doehler 2011). Recurrent participation in L2 conversation is viewed as key to IC…
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Preparing Pre-Service English Teachers for Differentiation in the Swedish Primary School
Pre-service teachers face both challenges and opportunities as they prepare to teach English in the increasingly diverse Swedish compulsory school (Years 0–9). Differentiation, understood here as the deliberate adaptation of teaching content, process, product, and learning environment to address…
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Leveraging Research for Literature Instruction: Insights for Developing Readers in L2 English
This thought piece tackles the question of how L2 English teachers can foster engaged and competent readers of literature. Highlighting the importance of using knowledge accumulated through research in teacher education and school teaching, it introduces a model of literary competences designed for…
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Revisiting Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope’s (1986) Conceptualization of Foreign Language Anxiety: Contemporary Perspectives
While numerous studies have investigated the emotion of foreign language anxiety through the use of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz et al. 1986), these same studies have rarely engaged with the specific circumstances of the learner population that informed its development…
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Relativisation in Early Modern Urban Vernaculars: New Evidence from Oxford and Durham Witness Depositions
This paper explores regional and temporal variations in the use of relative pronouns in witness depositions from Early Modern English. Specifically, it traces the development of relativisation patterns within the context of the diffusion of supralocal forms and the adoption of standard forms. Given…
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Effect of Word Frequency and Word Class on Swedish Upper Secondary Pupils’ Receptive Knowledge of English Academic Vocabulary
Assigned reading materials in Swedish universities are often in English. Therefore, pupils planning to pursue higher education need to develop a good receptive knowledge of English academic vocabulary. However, previous research indicates that upper secondary pupils completing obligatory English…
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Conducting Design-Based Research on Metacognitive Strategy Instruction in L2 Listening: Teachers’ Perspectives
This article presents the perspectives of teachers who participated in a Design-Based Research (DBR) project aimed at implementing metacognitive strategy instruction (MSI) in L2 listening in English and Dutch. This case study was carried out in French-speaking Belgium. Four focus group interviews…
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Gender Representation in Two American News Outlets Before and After #MeToo: A Corpus-Based Study
This study investigates the linguistic representation of gender in two ideologically distinct American news outlets, HuffPost and the Washington Examiner, before and after the #MeToo movement gained prominence in late 2017. It focuses on the adjectival evaluation of (pro)nominal expressions…
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Teacher Conceptualization of Interactional Competence in L2 English Speaking Assessment
Interactional competence (IC) is central for human communication, but has received little focus in standardized second language (L2) speaking tests. Given that raters’ understandings of assessment are reflected in scores, the study examines how raters conceptualize IC assessment. The data consists…
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Bringing the ‘Fuzzy’ into Focus: Analysing Some Morphosyntactic Features of Tanzanian English
The paper presents a pioneering pilot study on Tanzanian English (TznE) used in higher education. It addresses a gap in research on contemporary TznE, a variety that has been described as ‘instable and fuzzy’, particularly in its grammatical system. This field study aims to analyse some…
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Noun Phrase Complexity in Advanced L2 Compared to L1 English Speech
Noun phrase complexity is investigated in the spoken production of two groups of advanced L2 English speakers (L1 Swedish), who are compared to a group of L1 English speakers. One L2 group was resident in London, the other L2 group studied the L2 English teacher’s program at a Swedish university…
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Administrative Worlding: Paperealities and Bureaucratic 'Trompe L’oeil' in Fictional Representations of the British State
In works of fiction dealing with state bureaucracy, administrative practices such as census-taking and map-making have often been portrayed as modes of world-building akin to novelistic writing. The ontological effects of administrative statecraft have also been observed in scholarship on state…