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Professional Communication in a Global Business Context: The Notion of Global Communicative Competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
On the basis of an extensive survey study conducted among business professionals engaging in global communication, this paper discusses communicative competence. Rapid changes in work environments, particularly advancing globalization and new technology,
Kankaanranta, Anne   +1 more
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Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELF Communication

open access: yesELOPE, 2015
The traditional notion of English as a foreign language solely for communicating with native speakers can no longer be applied in a world that is constantly changing, hence paving the way for an alternative use of the language known as English as a ...
Lili Cavalheiro
doaj   +1 more source

Going Beyond the obvious in English for Legal Purposes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper deals with some of the problems and implications of Legal English being used as a lingua franca, especially when teaching legal English in courses for judges in various European ...
Campos-Pardillos, Miguel Ángel
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Co‐Authorship in Applied Linguistics Research: Patterns and Trends, 1991–2023

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been 18 years since Greene's featured article in Nature, The demise of the lone author. In that time, there have been enormous shifts in how educational research has been conducted, with a move towards greater teamworking, anecdotally evident from author bylines in published documents. This bibliometric study investigates patterns of co‐
William S. Pearson
wiley   +1 more source

English Medium Instruction and Idiomaticity in English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
This paper critically considers the implications of the growth of English-medium instruction (EMI) globally for idiomaticity in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
Jessica G. Briggs, Sarah Ashley Smith
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Interpreting successful lingua-franca interaction. An analysis of non-native-/non-native small talk conversation in English

open access: yesLinguistik 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
doaj   +1 more source

“I Had Dual Feelings”: (Re)Storying With a Rural South Korean English Teacher

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes (or re‐stories) intrapersonal ideological tensions of a rural South Korean English teacher, Yeonghyeon1, as she negotiates competing discourses across local, national, and global scales within the context of a semi‐structured interview.
Ian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training.
Aleksandra Wach
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical coverage in ELF [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine how much vocabulary is needed to understand English in contexts where it is spoken internationally as a lingua franca (ELF).
Stevenage, Christine
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Investigation of English Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Global Englishes and Global Englishes Language Teaching in Relation to Their Academic Interests and Experiences With English as a Global Lingua Franca

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates Japanese university students’ attitudes toward Global Englishes (GE) and Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT), focusing on how these attitudes are shaped by students’ academic interests and experiences using English as a lingua franca (ELF), both abroad and in domestic EFL contexts.
Natsuno Funada, Heath Rose
wiley   +1 more source

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