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When the textbook is not enough: How to shape an ELF classroom? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter is devised for English language teaching (ELT) practitioners to reflect on how language and culture are portrayed in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, and explore how an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) approach can be further ...
Guerra, Luis
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Investigation of English Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Global Englishes and Global Englishes Language Teaching in Relation to Their Academic Interests and Experiences With English as a Global Lingua Franca

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates Japanese university students’ attitudes toward Global Englishes (GE) and Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT), focusing on how these attitudes are shaped by students’ academic interests and experiences using English as a lingua franca (ELF), both abroad and in domestic EFL contexts.
Natsuno Funada, Heath Rose
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Oral Production of English as a Lingua Franca in European Universities: Can Corpora Inform the Test Construct?

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2015
This article examines the rapidly growing phenomenon of the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in European universities and the need to develop tests which reflect this use.
Newbold, David
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering awareness of the pedagogical implications of World Englishes and ELF in teacher education in Italy

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Teacher education represents an essential step to raise awareness of the sociolinguistic changes brought about by the current pluralization of English and by its lingua franca role.
Paola Vettorel , Sara Corrizzato
doaj   +1 more source

The role of international student interactions in English as a lingua franca in L2 acquisition, L2 motivational development and intercultural learning during study abroad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Crossing borders features prominently as a theme in study abroad, not only in terms of students’ physical border crossings but also in their intercultural interactions with second language (L2) speakers whose background (linguistic and otherwise) they ...
Hessel, Gianna
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On being heard: English, voice, and linguistic authority

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
This position paper explores the relationship between voice and different ways of understanding English. By emphasizing that English is dispersed, local, and variable, the World Englishes and English as a lingua franca (ELF) frameworks suggest that ...
Alastair Pennycook
doaj   +1 more source

English around us : A linguistic landscape activity to raise ELF awareness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Despite the gradual acceptance of English as an international lingua franca and efforts to decolonise the English language teaching field, native-speakerism is still prevalent in many parts of the world, including Japan.
Bin Masnin,Mohd Farez Syinon
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EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turkish EFL Students' Perceptions of ELF and its Pedagogical Implications

open access: yesSakarya University Journal of Education, 2021
English has established itself as a lingua franca for people from a variety of linguistic and cultural origins in today's more globalized world. As a result, English's current position is likely to have an effect on both EFL students' perceptions of the ...
Fikri Geckinli, Cevdet Yılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

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