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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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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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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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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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ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PEDAGOGY AND ASSESSMENT
TEFLIN Journal, 2017 The English language functions as a global language that facilitates communication among people of different lingua-cultures. This background leads to the question of whether the traditional language assessment still fulfils the needs of the majority of
Fan (Gabriel) Fang
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Is english our lingua franca or the native speaker's property? The native speaker orientation among middle school students in Japan [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reports the first empirical study to date that sought to examine the native speaker orientation among middle school EFL students in Japan. To this end, this preliminary study measured their language attitudes in this respect addressing age ...
Saito, Akihiro
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LanguagesStudies of children’s narratives have shown that selecting appropriate forms to reintroduce a referent compared to retaining a referent is challenging because it requires the integration of different accessibility features.
Satomi Mishina-Mori +2 more
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The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape in Slovenia
ELOPE, 2022 The issue of visible written language used in Slovene public spaces is addressed. This is rapidly changing under the influence of English as the lingua franca of today.
Nada Šabec
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