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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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Testing the Lingua Franca Core: The intelligibility of flaps
Over twenty years ago, Jenkins (2000) put forth the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), a pronunciation syllabus for international intelligibility among non-native speakers (NNSs) of English. Although insufficient empirical research has been directed to validating
Darío Barrera-Pardo
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Japanese universities have lately begun to teach academic content in Englishinstead of Japanese. In this article, I examine curricular and ideological issuesrelated to having English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at a Japanese universitybefore ...
Glenn Toh
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This article explores how translanguaging is perceived by a group of international students at a Korean university where not only different first languages (L1) and English (L2) are involved in the students’ daily lives but also the local language (L3 ...
J. Ra
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Conceptualising English as a business lingua franca [PDF]
Though a popular and somewhat controversial topic in discussions on language in IB, the notion of English as a (business) lingua franca/(B)ELF still lacks clear conceptualisation.
Komori-Glatz, Miya
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International business is increasingly conducted through the medium of English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF). Yet, little is known about interactional strategies in BELF, specifically in internal written business communications.
J. Hofweber, S. Jaworska
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Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality [PDF]
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 as a lingua franca [PDF]
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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English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca
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]
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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