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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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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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Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology-Enhanced Learning

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL
The edited volume Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology-Enhanced Learning edited by Pineda and Bosso (2023) is the first book ever to be published with a focus on the study of ...
Miriah Ralston
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A Study of Phonological Correlates between the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), Received Pronunciation and the Nigerian English Accent (NEA) [PDF]

Uirtus
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has shifted global linguistic priorities by emphasizing mutual intelligibility over adherence to native-speaker norms. This study examines the extent to which the Nigerian English Accent (NEA) aligns with Jenkins’ Lingua ...
Kofoworola Adedeji
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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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Mutual face preservation among Asian speakers of English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]

, 2014
This study identifies strategies used by speakers of ELF from Asia-Pacific countries for managing rapport in response to potentially face-threatening utterances in informal, non-hierarchical situations.
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Walkinshaw, Ian
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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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Pragmatics in English As a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments Developments in English as a lingua franca ;, 14./ edited by Ian Walkinshaw.

, 2022
This series welcomes book proposals detailing innovative and cutting edge research and theorisation in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF).
Walkinshaw Ian
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Teasing in informal contexts in English as an Asian lingua franca [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores how speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) manage the interactional back-and-forth of teasing, a social action which, being fundamentally ambiguous, is open to interpretation by a target and/or other participants as aggressive ...
Walkinshaw, Ian
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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 Teaching
This 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, Zeynep Köylü, Kristina Ehrsam   +2 more
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