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Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective

open access: yesIkala: 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Testing the Lingua Franca Core: The intelligibility of flaps

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022
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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Extrapolating from an Inquiry into Curricular Issues Concerning the Adoption of English as Medium of Instruction in a Japanese University Situation

open access: yesLatin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
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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The perceptions of translanguaging through English as a lingua franca among international students in Korean higher education

open access: yesJournal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2018
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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Polite impoliteness? How power, gender and language background shape request strategies in English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) in corporate email exchanges

open access: yesJournal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 as a lingua franca [PDF]

open access: yesELT 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca

open access: yesLiteracy 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]

open access: yes, 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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