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Use of English in the Scientific Community in France: Obstacles and Stakes
English as a lingua franca (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. That is the reason why ELF is the language used in science.
Claire Chaplier
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Making English Their Own: The Use of ELF among Students of English at the FUB
This paper analyses the attitudes and motives of students studying English at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and suggests that changing opinions on national (US and UK) standards and the emergence of the ‘New Europe’ represent mutually reinforcing ...
Elizabeth J. Erling, Tom Bartlett
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Multilingual couples using English as a lingua franca: Language practices, attitudes, and identities [PDF]
This thesis explores the language practices, attitudes, and identities of multilingual couples that use English as a lingua franca in the relationship (ELF couples). The goal is to investigate how these couples utilize their multilingual resources and if
Hyttinen, Saana
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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Features of ELF interactions in travel blogs: Travelers doing interactional work [PDF]
Travel blogs constitute a new platform where travelers can tell about their travel experiences and share information and impressions with their readers. Most travel blogs incorporate commenting capabilities, which enable social interaction among members ...
María-José Luzón
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The understanding of English as lingua franca and its involvement in language education policies in Europe [PDF]
This material addresses a topic that has long been relevant in scientific circles. It is about the meaning or understanding of the use of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) and its role in the formation of language education policies in Europe, which in fact
Arifi, Qatip
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Abstract Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) promotes, among other things, positive attitudes and maximized understanding to communicate with speakers with a variety of accents. However, research on GELT‐informed listening training is rare, and none has addressed both attitudes and understanding of diverse accents.
Hyeseung Jeong +3 more
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The long-standing research in World Englishes (WE) and, more recently, in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has greatly contributed to problematise several areas in connection to English language teaching, highlighting in particular the importance of ...
Sara Corrizzato, Paola Vettorel
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Allo-repetition in Academic Settings. Cooperation, Understanding Co-construction and Knowledge Negotiation in the Medical Section of the ELFA Corpus [PDF]
In recent years, spoken academic ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) has been an object of in- creasing interest in linguistic and communication studies thanks to the position of academia as “one of the domains which have most eagerly adopted English as ...
CAPPUZZO, Barbara
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ELLIPSIS AS A MARKER OF INTERACTION IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE [PDF]
In this article, we discuss strategies for interaction in spoken discourse, focusing on ellipsis phenomena in English. The data comes from the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca, and we analyse education data in the form of seminar and workshop ...
Chun +64 more
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