Looking under Kachru's (1982, 1985) three circles model of World Englishes: the hidden reality and current challenges
This paper examines the pioneering model of World Englishes formulated by Kachru in the early 1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: first of all, the inner circle (Great Britain, the USA) where the language functions as an L1 (or native language); secondly, the...
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982014000200008&lng=en&tlng=en |