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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 ...
B. Seidlhofer
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Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, 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 16th century. However, it is only during the past thirty years that ELF has spread to the rest of the world, seen a dramatic ...
Baker, William, Jenkins, Jennifer
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Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023 Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students’ linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch ...
Amy Hodges, Leslie Seawright
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English as an additional language (EAL): Decolonising provision and practice
The Curriculum Journal, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 62-82, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper examines ways in which approaches to English as Additional Language (EAL) can be decolonised in schools. In an attempt to break traditional divides between academic research and pedagogical practice in this area, this article adopts a collaborative perspective, between an EAL advisory and support teacher and an academic member of ...
Oakleigh Welply
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Future Saudi female teachers' perceptions of native-like English pronunciation and English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2023 Purpose – The present study aims to examine the attitudes of future Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student-teachers toward English native-like pronunciation to investigate their misconceptions about English as a Lingua Franca (ELF ...
Mazeegha Al Tale
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Since its reunification in 1990, Germany has been the destination of a large number of immigrants from Israel. They chose to settle in a country that is associated with the greatest tragedy in Jewish history, the Holocaust. Furthermore, they were raised in a country in which Holocaust memory and commemoration are major component of group ...
Uzi Rebhun
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Revista X, 2021 Current research on English teaching has increasingly turned to the notion of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). However, when we look at the reality of the classroom, teachers still feel insecure about how to employ this concept and the discussions ...
João Victor Schmicheck +1 more
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Negotiations in the Gendered Experiences of Transpinay Entertainers in Japan
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 2020 Among Filipino entertainers in Japan, trans women (transgender women) or transpinay (Filipino trans woman) entertainers remain understudied compared to cisgender women.
Tricia Okada
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Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2022 Recent epistemological and ontological revisions demonstrate a change within the elf geopolitics of knowledge as voices from the global South begin to claim themselves as knowledge producers within a field strongly marked by the European hegemony.
Gabriela Cauduro da Rosa, A. Duboc
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Salted Identities: Biocultural Heritage for a Rehumanized Ocean Management in South Africa
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 363-380, December 2022., 2022 SUMMARY In this article, I discuss coastal and oceanic biocultural heritage and its relevance to a transformed perception of the ocean and coast in South Africa. An anthropology of biocultural heritage at the coast reveals the multidimensional nature of personhoods—specifically transspecies, trans‐material forms of personhood—and the rich dialogical ...
Rosabelle Boswell
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