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English as a lingua franca [PDF]
ELT Journal, 2005 In recent years, the term ‘English as a lingua franca’ (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. Since roughly only one out of every four users of English in the world is a native speaker of the language (Crystal 2003), most ELF interactions take place among ‘non-native ...
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Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality [PDF]
, 2015 The paper argues that Negotiation (capitalised to differentiate from negotiation as an activity type such as business negotiation) is the most important means of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication.
Zhu, Hua
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English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca
Literacy Trek, 2021 English language has already become a world language while the world is changing and globalizing. It has been universally accepted in the academic field that English is now used as a lingua franca (ELF) in intercultural communication, and the lingua ...
Özdenur Ardıç Kıyak
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Explaining employees’ reactions towards a cross-border merger:the role of English language fluency [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we focus on the role of language in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and explore how organization members’ language skills, or fluency, in the adopted lingua franca may impact their reactions to a merger.
Cornelissen, Joep P. +2 more
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Towards a (Painful?) Paradigm Shift: Language Teachers and the Notion of ‘Error’
Altre Modernità, 2017 This paper examines the relationship between language teachers and the errors made by their students. Traditionally, errors reflect a deviation from a standard, which is a described or imagined standard form of linguistic behavior, and teachers are the ...
David Newbold
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018 This study investigates Taiwanese university students’ experience of English use, aims of learning English and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF). The notion of ELF has been researched in the field of English language teaching.
Wen-Hsing Luo
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 My core postulate is that there is a widening chasm between small islands of privileged middle-class learners of EFL across the developing world, the EFL haves – and the masses of working-class and ordinary learners, often ‘low achievers’ in school ...
Bill Templer
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Making English a New Latin [PDF]
, 2010 The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success.
Scheuer, Sylwia
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Journal of Applied Studies in Language, 2021 English is the most used lingua franca and its permeation is mainly through education sector. This expansion is reflected through the display of English coexisting with other languages in education sites.
Yustika Wahyu Riani +3 more
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, 2020 The phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF), in other words English used among speakers who have different first language backgrounds, has existed since the British began to colonize parts of Asia and Africa in the late sixteenth century. However, it is only during the past thirty years that ELF has spread to the rest of the world, seen a ...
Baker, William, Jenkins, Jennifer
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