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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 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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Linguistik Online, 2000 In the last few decades, English has become the most widely spread global lingua franca. Being used as a means of communication by non-native speakers of different linguistic and cultural background, norms for the use of lingua franca English cannot be ...
Christiane Meierkord
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Integrating an ELF perspective to English education in Japan : Motivational challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2011 The primary role of English in the world today is as a lingua franca, yet this reality is largely ignored by current educational practice in Japan. This paper considers two ostensibly diverse areas of research-the use of English as a global lingua franca
Stephen, Ryan
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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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Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2023 The discourse on English as a lingua franca (ELF) has impacted the way that English language teaching (ELT) is conceptualised, yet arguably little has changed in how English as an additional or second language (EAL/ESL) and English as a foreign language
Lacie Raymond
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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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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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English as the Lingua Franca in Europe
Discourse, 2022 Introduction. Throughout several decades, English has been strengthening its position as lingua franca in international communication. The relevance of the given study is justified by the examination of the English language from the perspective of contact variantology and in the context of gradually emerging new version of English – Euro-English.
G. A. Demin, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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, 2019 Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, Vol 23 No 2 (2019): Pre-Fixing the Colonial: Theory and ...
Annarita Taronna, Laura Centonze
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