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English as a Lingua Franca: Applied Linguistics, Marxism, and Post-Marxist theory

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2017
This paper is motived by a reading of “English as a Lingua Franca: An Immanent Critique” (O’REGAN, 2014), who claims that ELF researchers place their work at the forefront of debates with regard to what function and form English should play in the lives ...
John Robert Schmitz
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English in the mainstream: Heritage language or lingua franca? [PDF]

, 2006
This article examines fundamental assumptions that relate to the nature and role of the English language in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its use in society generally and in the school curriculum specifically.
Bruce, Ian
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A comparison of spoken and signed lingua franca communication: the case of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS)

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2021
AbstractThis article explores similarities between English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS), two lingua franca phenomena which in the last decades have been subject to increasing, albeit independent, linguistic research. In contrast to spoken intercultural communication, in which English often represents a shared resource that ...
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Home culture and its effects on English as a lingua franca communication: Voices from Chinese students at a United Kingdom university. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Zhang X, Lütge C.
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English as a lingua franca: analyzing research frameworks in international English, world Englishes, and ELF [PDF]

World Englishes, 2009
ABSTRACT:  This paper considers the problems, the properties, and the prospects of using ‘English as a lingua franca’ as a construct and as a reality. It will therefore focus on what is meant by the term ‘lingua franca’, what is represented as a ‘lingua franca’, and what the debates are about English as a lingua franca. The point of departure is Kachru'
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Redefining the speaking construct for ELF oral assessment: conversation analysis and framework development in a Japanese university context

Language Testing in Asia
Background English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has become the primary medium of international communication, yet language assessment practices continue to privilege native-speaker norms that misalign with multilingual communication realities.
Alexis Goli, Nkhensani Maluleke-Dube
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Chinese speakers' attitudes towards their own English: ELF or Interlanguage

, 2014
The globalisation of English has motivated the research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the debate concerning non-native English speakers’ (NNESs’) own English.
Wang, Ying
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A Tale of Two Platforms: Decoding the Digital Footprints of High School Students in Bilingual Scaffolded MOOCs

Online Learning
While Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are widely used in higher education, their application and effectiveness for high school students, especially English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners grappling with language barriers in English-Medium ...
Jo-Chi Hsiao, Chiung-Fang Chang, Ken-Zen Chen   +2 more
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English as A Lingua Franca: How It Is Interpreted and Implemented in EFL Classroom

IJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2018
People all around the globe has recognized that English is now used as its lingua franca. It means that English has been used as a means to communicate in every aspect of situation among people who do not share the same first language. This phenomenon is
Rizki Ramadhan, Yuniar D A Siregar
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Researching language learning motivation: A concise guide. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Pei R, Zhang Z.
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