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English as Lingua Franca

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2015
The article highlights English as Lingua Franca and emphasizes the importance of teaching Language for Special Purposes (LSP). The content of the notion “lingua-franca” is analysed on the basis of a number of linguistic works devoted to the English ...
Seda Gasparyan
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The dominance of English in scientific publications: The experience and attitudes of scholars working at a faculty in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesReči (Beograd), 2021
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

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2008
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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English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Croatian L1 Students' Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesHumanities and social sciences review (Cumberland, R.I.), 2019
The current paper presents the results of a research which aimed at establishing the attitude of Croatian L1 students towards the role of English as a global international language. In particular, the focus is to examine whether their perspectives reflect the notion of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) by means of a three-part questionnaire designed to ...
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ELF-awareness and Teachers' Attitudes Towards Classroom Materials' Evaluation: A Mini-survey Results

open access: yesPółrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2019
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?

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2006
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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Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training.
Aleksandra Wach
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Authenticity and awareness of English as a lingua franca in English language classrooms

open access: yesGlottodidactica, 2021
Research on the incorporation of the emerging English as a lingua franca (ELF) paradigm into English language teaching has flourished in recent years, foregrounding the necessity of translanguaging practices.
ANTONIO TAGLIALATELA
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A Rich Domain of ELF – the ELFA Corpus of Academic Discourse

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2006
The academic field has used English as a lingua franca widely for a long time, and is a good choice for an ELF corpus. It is useful to restrict the scope of exploratory research in one way or another, mode and domain offering themselves as clear and ...
Anna Mauranen
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Self-mention in the academic discourse of ELF writers

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2021
English has firmly established itself as a lingua franca in the international environment and in no environment is this more true than in the academic one.
Maňáková Monika
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