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Ardith J. Meier University of Northern IowaKeywords: Noticing, intercultural communicative competence, culture-general approach, English as a lingua franca Abstract This paper expands Schmidt’s (1990) concept of “noticing” and adapts it to the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), an especially relevant goal of language teaching given increased communication across cultures and the role of English […]

Kenta Yamanouchi Nagoya Gakuin UniversityKeywords: English as an international language, native speaker of English, nonnative speaker of English, language model, speaker model, English education in Japan Abstract In the research area of English as an international language, there are numerous studies about appropriate language norms and language models, but few investigations of attitudes about people

İsmail Hakkı Erten Hacettepe UniversityHüseyin Öz Hacettepe UniversityKeywords: editorial Abstract Dear EJAL Readers, Welcome to our inaugural issue of Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL). Why a new applied linguistics journal? That was the very question Hüseyin Öz and I had to find an answer to when we had the idea of launching a new