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Lingua Franca English of South Africa

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractThe process of globalization in modern world has affected all spheres of our life – politics, economy and culture. To realize these processes people should have a common means of communication – a lingua franca. The English language has become this lingua franca, as about 1,5 billion people speak English today. The study of English regional and
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring cultural and linguistic diversity in the English‐medium instruction university

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study utilizes questionnaires, interviews, and universities’ web content and strategy documents to investigate the reasons behind the rise of English‐medium instruction in Türkiye's higher education and its implications for intercultural communication.
Talip Gülle, Yavuz Kurt, Yasemin Bayyurt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Karolina Kalocsai, Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca,

Iperstoria, 2015
Review of Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca.
Paola Vettorel
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring students' performance using lingua franca in science education: a study of grade ten students in Capiz, Philippines. [PDF]

F1000Res, 2023
Diestro D.
europepmc   +1 more source

English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education of Azerbaijan [PDF]

, 2019
The thesis deals with the issue of the study of English as a Lingua Franca in higher education of Azerbaijan. The integrative role of English as Lingua Franca and its implication constitute the basis of the study in this field.
Mamedova, Farida
core  

Exploring third spaces during pre‐service teacher online intercultural conversations

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We examined intercultural conversations in English between South African and Dutch pre‐service teachers during a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project. Unlike traditional COIL research, which emphasizes good practices and professional development, our approach explored the significance of everyday conversations in finding ...
Peter Mesker, Sarina de Jager
wiley   +1 more source

Indus script corpora, archaeo-metallurgy and Meluhha (Mleccha) [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
Jules Bloch's work on formation of the Marathi language has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the ancient Near East.
arxiv  

English as a lingua franca in spoken genres in the international university: introduction

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2018
English has long been the lingua franca of academic settings. As many readers of this journal will know, since World War II, English has established for itself a solid place as the dominant lingua franca of science through which most academic and ...
Beyza Björkman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Okay in intercultural lingua franca interactions between Chinese and British postgraduate students

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The forms and functions of okay have been investigated extensively in contexts where interlocutors speak the same language (e.g., German, Hungarian, and Swedish). Conversely, comparatively few studies have been conducted on how okay is used among people who do not share the same first language, such as lingua franca encounters.
Angela Sabbah‐Taylor, Christopher J. Jenks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Native Design Bias: Studying the Impact of English Nativeness on Language Model Performance [PDF]

arXiv
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at providing information acquired during pretraining on large-scale corpora and following instructions through user prompts. This study investigates whether the quality of LLM responses varies depending on the demographic profile of users.
arxiv