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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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Mutual face preservation among Asian speakers of English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2014 This study identifies strategies used by speakers of ELF from Asia-Pacific countries for managing rapport in response to potentially face-threatening utterances in informal, non-hierarchical situations.
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Walkinshaw, Ian
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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 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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PhD supervision meetings in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) setting: linguistic competence and content knowledge as neutralizers of institutional and academic power [PDF]
, 2017 The present paper investigates PhD supervision meetings, using material from naturally occurring speech of ten hours by PhD supervisors and students who all use English as a lingua franca (ELF) for research purposes.
Björkman, Beyza,, Beyza Björkman
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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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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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Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context: Orientations to English as a Lingua Franca Developments in English as a lingua franca ;, 12./ Ying Wang. [PDF]
, 2020 In English.Includes bibliographical references and index.This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a ...
Wang Ying
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‘We Want Fork but No Pork’: (Im)politeness in Humour by Asian Users of English as a Lingua Franca and Australian English Speakers [PDF]
, 2020 This study explores the conversational humour of Asian multilinguals using English as a lingua franca (ELF) – specifically, their use of (im)politeness strategies to humorously maintain, neglect or affront their target’s face.
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Walkinshaw, Ian
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