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This article explores the principal acronyms in teaching and researching English as a 'second' and/or 'other' acquired language. It argues that even when we appear to be advocating the non-native speaker right to shape the future of the language our terms still reveal a native speaker bias.
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This page is a summary of: Rheme and reason: Why is English always the Theme rather than the Rheme in our acronyms?, English Today, March 2011, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0266078411000125.
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