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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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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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Language Learner Beliefs In An English As A Lingua Franca (ELF) Context

Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
With the advent of learner-centered approaches to second or foreign language teaching, the research on learners’ beliefs or what learners bring into the classroom in terms of their prior knowledge and experiences, their expectations, and their attitudes towards different aspects of language learning has gained momentum.
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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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English as a Medium of Instruction at an Italian Engineering Faculty: an investigation of structural features and pragmatic functions [PDF]

, 2011
L'uso dell'inglese quale lingua veicolo nei corsi di I e II livello presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università di Napoli Federico II. Lo studio mette a fuoco le caratteristiche strutturali e le funzioni pragmatiche dell'uso specialistico dell ...
Francomacaro, Maria Rosaria
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EFL teachers’ role in English: Letting the silent majority voice their words

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2018
With the advent of the global perspective on English, the live issues of the ownership and culture of English (Akbari, 2008; Seidlhofer, 2005) have begun to shake up numerous conventional notions of the field.
Babaii Esmat, Atai Mahmood Reza, Parsazadeh Abbas   +2 more
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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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The reconceptualisation of knowledge base in the pre-service teacher education curriculum: Towards ELF pedagogy

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This article examines “what will be taught” or the knowledge base demonstrated in the English language teacher education curricula by using the framework of English as a Lingua Franca. The need for enhancing the professionalism of English teachers in the
Zulfa Sakhiyya, Helena I.R. Agustien, Hendi Pratama   +2 more
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Intercultural activities in English language teaching: a contribution to understand English as a lingua franca (ELF)

Babel: Revista Eletrônica de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras, 2015
Currently, English has acquired the status of Lingua Franca enabling world communication (CRYSTAL, 2003; SEIDLHOLFER, 2011). However, in the context of English language teaching (ELT), it is necessary to develop the idea of what the concept of ELF may contribute to students’ awareness and development.
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Researching language learning motivation: A concise guide. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Pei R, Zhang Z.
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