ELF-awareness and Teachers' Attitudes Towards Classroom Materials' Evaluation: A Mini-survey Results
Półrocznik 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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Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views
Studies 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
Glottodidactica, 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
NJES: 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
Topics 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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Research methods and intelligibility studies
, 2010 This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research.
SEWELL, Andrew John
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Combining different types of data in studying attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2012 This paper deals with the attitudes of Croatian speakers to ELF, in particular to its pronunciation. Four methods were combined to reach conclusions about the status of ELF in Croatia: diary study, teacher interviews, a preliminary focus group interview ...
Josipović-Smojver, Višnja +2 more
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Making English a New Latin [PDF]
, 2010 The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success.
Scheuer, Sylwia
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The learning potential of English as a lingua franca contexts in the eyes of study abroad students
Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingThis paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students’
Sybille Heinzmann +2 more
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Thai hotel undergraduate interns’ awareness and attitudes towards English as a lingua franca
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 The study examines twenty-eight Thai undergraduate hotel interns’ attitudes towards the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in terms of its varieties of spoken English.
Waraporn Suebwongsuwan +1 more
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