English as A Lingua Franca: How It Is Interpreted and Implemented in EFL Classroom
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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Review of developments in research into English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
We begin by considering how the recent phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) fits in with the older notion of lingua francas in general as well as with older versions of ELF.
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Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments
This volume addresses two current gaps in pragmatics research in English as a lingua franca (ELF): Firstly, the contexts, approaches and theories of pragmatics generally that remain under-explored in studies of ELF speakers; secondly, the paucity of ELF ...
Walkinshaw, Ian
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Empirical perspectives on English as a lingua franca (ELF) grammar [PDF]
AbstractThis article focuses on grammatical variation in English as a lingua franca (ELF). Calling for more systematic corpus studies, it presents three empirical perspectives that broaden and deepen the study of grammatical variability in ELF. These approaches focus on tracing how ongoing grammatical change in core and emergent modal auxiliaries is ...
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The dominance of English in scientific publications: The experience and attitudes of scholars working at a faculty in Serbia [PDF]
The author of the paper studied the experience and attitudes of 30 scholars working at a faculty in Serbia. The results of the questionnaire comply with the findings of much larger linguistic and sociolinguistic studies conducted on the subject in other ...
Igrutinović Smiljana M.
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English as the Lingua Franca of Engineering: The Morphosyntax of Academic Speech Events
English today is frequently used as an international means of communication among its non-native speakers from different L1 backgrounds. Research on English as a lingua franca (ELF) has already revealed commonalities and common processes from a variety ...
Beyza Björkman
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Findings and developments in ELF pragmatics research: An introduction [PDF]
For me, pragmatics in English in a lingua franca (ELF) is epitomised by a recording in the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) of three female students chatting in a college dormitory (MS_ED_con_6): two Malaysians who speak Malay ...
Walkinshaw, Ian, Ian Walkinshaw
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ELF-awareness and Teachers' Attitudes Towards Classroom Materials' Evaluation: A Mini-survey Results
The present article focuses on the impact of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research on English language pedagogy in relation to teaching materials and, more specifically, the way culture and different varieties of English are included in them.
Natalia Agnieszka Rzońca
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English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers.
Sandra Mollin
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Strategies of Address in English Lingua Franca (ELF) Academic Interactions [PDF]
The paper describes the address practices reported by students and lecturers from three English-taught master’s degrees organised at a small Italian university where English is used as a lingua franca (ELF) of communication. The main aim of the study is to ascertain whether and how the multilingual and multicultural composition of the ELF classroom ...
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