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At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the

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The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for r