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The role of English as a lingua franca in FDI: Evidence from China

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2023
This paper examines the impact of English as a lingua franca on FDI by using the bilateral FDI data between China and 36 OECD countries. We find that English as a lingua franca significantly promotes FDI between China and OECD countries; the impact of ...
C. Liao, Weiguo Zhang
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Rethinking English as a lingua franca in scientific-academic contexts

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 2022
We aim to challenge assumptions made about the use of English as a “lingua franca” in scientific-academic contexts, identify the impact of such assumptions on trajectories of knowledge production and uptake, and legitimize the use of multiple ...
Federico Navarro, T. Lillis, T. Donahue, M. Curry, Natalia Ávila Reyes, M. Gustafsson, Virginia Zavala, D. Lauria, A. Lukin, C. McKinney, H. Feng, Désirée Motta-Roth   +11 more
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Teaching English as a lingua franca in China

English Today, 2021
The last decade has witnessed a significant increase of research on English as a lingua franca (ELF) as today's world becomes progressively more globalized (Lei & Liu, 2018).
Xia Yu, Chengyu Liu
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Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing

, 2020
This study complements previous research on linguistic features of English as a lingua franca (ELF) from a syntactic complexity perspective. Specifically, the present study seeks to find out how ELF users express meaning relations in research articles ...
Xue-Jing Wu, Anna Mauranen, L. Lei
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Translanguaging for intercultural communication in international higher education: transcending English as a lingua franca

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This article seeks to explore intercultural communication among a group of students with diverse linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds in an English-medium transnational university in China, focusing on multilingual students’ practices and perceptions
W. Ou, M. Gu, Francis M. Hult
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English as a lingua franca in the international university: language experiences and perceptions among international students in multilingual Hong Kong

, 2020
This paper presents findings of a qualitative inquiry into international students’ experiences and perceptions of their language use in an English-medium international university in multilingual Hong Kong, with particular attention to the use of English ...
C. Sung
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Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication

, 2021
The paper argues that cognitive mechanisms responsible for implicatures are the same no matter what language someone uses. However, linguistic knowledge, conceptual knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge and contextual effect that are all needed for producing
I. Kecskés
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Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning

arXiv.org
We present Franca (pronounced Fran-ka): free one; the first fully open-source (data, code, weights) vision foundation model that matches and in many cases surpasses the performance of state-of-the-art proprietary models, e.g., DINOv2, CLIP, SigLIPv2, etc.
S. Venkataramanan, Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Lukas Knobel, Spyros Gidaris, Elias Ramzi, Andrei Bursuc, Yuki M. Asano   +7 more
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