Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Editors: Editor: Miros aw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Vol. 2 No. 4 December 2012 Editorial Board: Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia) Larissa Aronin (Trinity College, Dublin) Simon Borg (University of Leeds) Piotr Cap (University of ód ) Anna Cie licka (Texas A&M International University, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Kata Csizer (Eötvös University, Budapest) Maria Dakowska (University of Warsaw) Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Krystyna Dro dzia -Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Rod Ellis (University of Auckland) Danuta Gabry -Barker (University of Silesia) Rebecca Hughes (University of Sheffield) Hanna Komorowska (University of Warsaw, SWPS) Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of ód ) Jan Majer (University of ód ) Paul Meara (Swansea University) Anna Micho ska-Stadnik (University of Wroc aw) Anna Ni egorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) François Pichette (University of Quebec) Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (Opole University) Vera Regan (University College, Dublin) Heidemarie Sarter (University of Potsdam) Pawe Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Linda Shockey (University of Reading) Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin) odzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Merrill Swain (University of Toronto) Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of ód ) Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia) KALISZ – POZNA 2012 EDITOR: Miros aw Pawlak ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR: Jakub Bielak Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak © Copyright by Wydzia Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny, UAM Pozna Proofreading: Melanie Ellis Cover design: Joanna Dudek Typesetting: Piotr Bajak ISSN 2083-5205 eISSN 2084-1965 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching is published both in print and online, with the print edition being the original version. 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Special issue: Languages in the globalised world: Interpreting multilingual literacy and cross-cultural encounters Guest editors: Théophile Munyangeyo François Pichette Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Volume 2, Number 4, December 2012 http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Contents Notes on Contributors .................................................................... 461 Editorial ......................................................................................... 465 Articles: Romuald Gozdawa-Go biowski – Does Euro-English have native speakers? Making sense of conflicting views ................................................................... 467 Robert Michael Bianchi – Glocal Arabic online: The case of 3arabizi ........ 483 Ralph Krüger – Working with corpora in the translation classroom .......... 505 Pawe Sobkowiak – Cross-cultural perspective of FL teaching and learning in the Polish context .......................................................................................... 527 Muñoz de Cote, Sylvia van Dijk – Intercultural challenge to language learning ........................................................................................... 543 Théophile Munyangeyo – The rhetoric of disenchantment through symbolism ............................................................................................... 561 Reviewers for Volume 2/2012 ......................................................... 579 Notes to Contributors ..................................................................... 581 461 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Notes on Contributors Robert Michael Bianchi is a recent doctoral graduate of Lancaster University and an assistant professor in the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, where he teaches composition, critical thinking, and re- search skills. He has been teaching for over 20 years. An avid language learner, he has varying degrees of proficiency in some 15 languages. His research inter- ests include bilingualism, code-switching, script-switching, diglossia, and iden- tity-related language use. The author is particularly interested in localized lin- guistic responses to globalization, especially the emergence of mixed codes in online contexts. He enjoys creative writing and travelling in his spare time. Contact details: (e-mail: rmbianchi@qatar.vcu.edu) Luz María Muñoz de Cote is professor at the Language Department at the Uni- versity of Guanajuato, Mexico. She is particularly interested in research related to dialogical approaches to teaching and learning as well as teacher develop- ment. She has been a teacher trainer for over 15 years. She is currently the director of the Language Department at the University of Guanajuato after a year coordinating the TESOL BA program. Contact details: (e-mail: luzmaria@ugto.mx) Sylvia van Dijk is professor at the Education Department at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Her main research interest is children’s rights and within this field she has published extensively. She is currently coordinating the Edu- cational Research Master Program. Romuald Gozdawa-Go biowski is a professor of linguistics at the Institute of English Studies, the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include applied linguistics (testing, pedagogical grammar, formulaic competence, applied contrastive syntax), theoretical linguistics (the generative paradigm) and recent 462 developments in language teaching methodology, in particular Content and Lan- guage Integrated Learning, Intercultural Communicative Competence, lingua francas, and Euro-English(es). He has written a book on interlanguage growth, four manuals of English grammar for Polish secondary schools and adult learners and numerous papers in academic journals in Poland and abroad. He coau- thored a testing manual and six collections of tests of English for Polish learners and codeveloped attainment standards and the model of foreign language test- ing at the University of Warsaw. Contact details: (e-mail: r.gozdawa@uw.edu.pl) Ralph Krüger is a split-site PhD student in translation studies at Cologne Uni- versity of Applied Sciences, Germany and the University of Salford, UK. At Co- logne University of Applied Sciences, he teaches specialised translation, trans- lation technology, project management and translation theory at BA and MA levels. At the University of Salford, he taught general translation at BA level and specialised translation at MA level. His PhD thesis focuses on a corpus- based investigation of explicitation and implicitation in scientific and technical translation and is situated within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Contact details: (e-mail: ralph.krueger@fh-koeln.de) Théophile Munyangeyo currently teaches translation, interpreting (French-English both ways) and written communication skills in the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is research ethics coordinator, and supervises and examines PhD students in language learning and teaching. Some of his publica- tions explored literary representations and reading theories applied to French and Francophone writings. In this research area, he explored the fiction/reality dichot- omy, the notion of subjectivity in creative writing and proximity between the fic- tional space and the social context of postcolonial francophone novels, especially in relation to the concept of literature of engagement and disenchantment in fic- tional narratives. Dr Théophile Munyangeyo has researched, presented confer- ences papers and given lectures at universities in and outside the United Kingdom as guest lecturer on interpreting (principles, practices and ethics), especially public service interpreting; bilingual and multilingual education; language acquisition (second and third language acquisition); language policy; discourse analysis and language learning and teaching. Contact details: (e-mail: t.munyangeyo@leedsmet.ac.uk) Francois Pichette is Professor of Linguistics at Teluq/Universite du Quebec a Mon- treal, Canada. His teaching and research interests include language acquisition and 463 development, reading and writing, and second-language vocabulary acquisition. Dr. Pichette has also taught Spanish and French at universities in Mexico and the United States, and has published in several peer-reviewed journals such as The Modern Language Journal, The Canadian Modern Language Review, The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Annals. Contact details: (e-mail: pichette.francois@teluq.uqam.ca) Pawe Sobkowiak, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the School of Law and Administra- tion, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna , Poland, where he teaches Business English and Business Communication to students of management. His main re- search interests include different aspects of teaching business English, the profes- sional development of language teachers as well as, more recently, the develop- ment of learners’ intercultural competence and intercultural teaching. Contact details: (e-mail: pawelsob@amu.edu.pl)