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Changed Minds and L2 Motivation: Reflections of Japanese EFL Students Living, Laboring and Learning in Vietnam

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English as a lingua franca (ELF) is increasingly used for communication in many EFL contexts, including Vietnam. Although Japan and Vietnam have a long history of economic cooperation, for practical reasons, English typically functions as the medium of communication between the two groups. This study examines Japanese expats who had studied or
Mark R. Freiermuth, Satomi Kanaya
wiley   +1 more source

Lingua Franca of Cardiogenic Shock: Speaking the Same Language. [PDF]

Front Cardiovasc Med, 2021
Long A, Baran DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

De língua estrangeira para língua franca

Doxa
O presente texto apresenta resultados parciais advindos de uma pesquisa qualitativa e documental, que visa analisar a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC).
Caique Fernando da Silva Fistarol, Éderson Luís Silveira, Sandra Pottmeier   +2 more
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The Pen is Mightier Than the Algorithm? A Multilevel Linguistic Comparison of LLM‐ and Human‐Translated Research Article Abstracts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Translating local research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) connects local scholarship with global readership, but this process remains constrained by language barriers. Large language models (LLMs) offer advanced accessible solutions, but their responsible integration into academic translation requires a deeper understanding of the ...
Yueyue Huang, Yao Yao, Dechao Li
wiley   +1 more source

Beacon v2 and Beacon networks: A "lingua franca" for federated data discovery in biomedical genomics, and beyond. [PDF]

Hum Mutat, 2022
Rambla J, Baudis M, Ariosa R, Beck T, Fromont LA, Navarro A, Paloots R, Rueda M, Saunders G, Singh B, Spalding JD, Törnroos J, Vasallo C, Veal CD, Brookes AJ.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Entangled Discourses and Realities of English: Japanese Undergraduates’ Everyday Online and Offline Language Experiences

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

What Is English in the Light of Lingua Franca Usage?

, 2019
The origin of the term ‘lingua franca’ is unclear. According to Ostler (2010, p. 7), lingua franca “seems to be a retranslation of some Eastern-Mediterranean term for ‘language of the Franks’”. Ostler also notes (2010, p. 4) the “original ‘Lingua Franca’
Schaller-Schwaner, I, Iris Schaller-Schwaner, Andy Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick, A   +3 more
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Mediterranean Lingua Franca

, 2020
This chapter explores the effect of Arabic contact on Lingua Franca, an almost exclusively oral pidgin spoken across the Mediterranean and along the North African coastline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Nolan, Joanna
core   +1 more source

Global Interns or Learners of Japanese?: American Interns’ Negotiation of Positioning Across Orders of Indexicality in Japanese Workplaces

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid Japan's internationalization efforts, foreign employees are positioned as global English‐speaking talent while simultaneously facing expectations to conform to Japanese linguacultural norms. This study examines how such tensions are negotiated through the narratives of two interns—one African American and one Vietnamese American—in ...
Hae Ree Jun
wiley   +1 more source

Teasing in informal contexts in English as an Asian lingua franca

, 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
core   +1 more source