Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology-Enhanced Learning [PDF]
The edited volume Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology-Enhanced Learning edited by Pineda and Bosso (2023) is the first book ever to be published with a focus on the study of ...
Miriah Ralston
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A study of Taiwanese university students’ English use, learning goals and attitudes toward English as a lingua franca [PDF]
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 (ELF), ELF attitudes, ELF awareness, English varieties
International teaching practicum (ITP) has gained more popularity since it is considered as a way of improving teachers’ quality not only in terms of the pedagogical competence but also the intercultural one.
Ninik Tri Astutik, Willy Prasetya
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THAI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELF IN CLASSROOM CONTEXTS: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY
English has long acted as a powerful language in the world since it is spoken by various people from diverse cultural backgrounds and places around the globe. As a number of non-native speakers (NNSs) are rapidly growing, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
Sumit Choemue, Retno Muljani
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ELF Users’ Attitudes and Orientations in Tourism Interaction
Tourism English is an interesting domain of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research because it can provide sociocultural, discursive, and sociolinguistic insights into a kind of professional genre that has not been extensively researched within or ...
Ida Parise
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Nursing Students' Perceptions of English as A Lingua Franca
Provoked by the Faculty of Nursing’s graduate career prospective, ‘nurse in international nursing services’, this study aimed to investigate the Englishes nursing students were in favour of and the Englishes they needed for their future career and ...
Komilie Situmorang, Sandra Sembel
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Novel Challenges for Discourse Analysis: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The special issue of ELOPE (Vol. 20, No 1 2023), guest edited by Frančiška Lipovšek and Gašper Ilc, presents a collection of six research papers focussing on the application of discourse analysis to analyze various texts produced in the ELF context.
Frančiška Lipovšek, Gašper Ilc
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English language teachers’ perceptions of world Englishes and English as a lingua franca
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’
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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Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality [PDF]
The paper argues that Negotiation (capitalised to differentiate from negotiation as an activity type such as business negotiation) is the most important means of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication.
Zhu, Hua
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