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Reflections on ELT pedagogy: Functioning and communicating in English [PDF]
Sintagma, 2013 Globalization and multicultural communicative settings have contributed to the expansion of English as the main international language and as a result, English as a Lingua Franca use has been on the rise.
Lili Cavalheiro
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Going Beyond the obvious in English for Legal Purposes [PDF]
, 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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Toward a Conceptual Model of Academic Translation Competence
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Different cultures have distinct conceptions of knowledge and ways of defining, generating and communicating knowledge. Therefore, multilingualism in academia has been shown to be instrumental in preserving the various systems of knowledge, equality of opportunity in science and enhancing the international competitiveness of scholars whose ...
Krisztina Károly
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Conceptualising English as a lingua franca (ELF) as a tertiary classroom language
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2010 This contribution draws on the notion of English as a lingua franca, especially as discussed in James (2006) and Smit (2010), to conceptualise English-medium tertiary education in settings where English functions as additional language and where ...
Smit, Ute
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English as a Lingua Franca in Portugal: What students want, what teachers teach [PDF]
, 2012 This study seeks to show how Portuguese students and teachers view learning and using English today and how their attitudes can influence or be influenced by ELT policies and practices. It made use of two semi-structured questionnaires, one for students (
Guerra, Luis
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English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2012 This chapter shows that English as a lingua franca (ELF) and English for specific purposes (ESP) share common ground. ESP, and the research methodologies that support the ESP, can be seen to have made an important contribution to the understanding of ...
Nickerson, Catherine
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Sticky Objects and Places: Entangled Emotions in an English‐Medium University Educationscape
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores entangled emotions in an Abu Dhabi English‐medium university educationscape in relation to sticky objects and sticky places, which are objects/places saturated in affect through familiarity and repetition. Moving away from a lingua‐centric approach to linguistic landscape research, this ethnographic study explores Emirati ...
Sarah Hopkyns
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INTERVIEW: Interview with Professor Barbara Seidlhofer
Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018 Professor Barbara Seidlhofer is a professor of English and applied linguistics at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research and teaching focus is on English as a lingua franca (conceptualization, description, theoretical implications), the nature ...
Davoud Amini
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Report on Faculty Development and Research at the Center for English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2017 In the Center for English as a Lingua Franca (CELF), we believe that the success of our English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) program will depend largely on the quality of our teaching.
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Translanguaging theory and practices have enabled multilingual spaces where students’ full linguistic repertoires are valued, explored, and utilized by educators as resources across educational settings. However, research reporting supervision pedagogies incorporating international doctoral students’ multilingualism as intellectual resources ...
Wei Liu +3 more
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