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Global English on Language Mode Continuum

A new type of language speaker has emerged over the past few decades, namely the speaker of English as the language of globalisation or Global English. Such a speaker has a mother tongue different from English, is not bilingual, learns English as a foreign language but uses it intensively in some aspect of their life, mostly for educational or occupational purposes and possibly pastime. English is not the official language of their environment. A psycholinguistic investigation of language processing in such a speaker seems necessary for future research dealing with this (growing) group of speakers. In this study lexical decision task has been used to study visual lexical access in Croatian speakers of Global English in three language modes: Croatian, English, and mixed. Language mode has been defined as the state of activation of languages and language processing mechanisms in a bilingual speaker at any given point in time (Grosjean 2008). The results of this research are portrayed in form of two Global English language mode continua and compared to the bilingual language mode continuum as a type of an ideal. The difference between the language mode continuum of a bilingual and a speaker of Global English are discussed.

Global English (GE); Croatian; GE language mode continua; visual lexical decision task

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