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"What language does global business speak?" - The concept and development of BELF [PDF]

open access: yesIbérica, 2013
This paper focuses on the development of the concept of BELF, which originally stood for Business English as Lingua Franca , but later we have used the abbreviation to refer to English as Business Lingua Franca .
Marja Kankaanranta   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Deceiving ELF? Can Englsh fulfil the role of a Lingua Franca?

open access: yesLingue e Linguaggi, 2016
– The debate which surrounds the role of English as a lingua franca has been lively and extensive over the last twenty years or so. Numerous conferences and specific publications in the field testify to the interest and importance that the question of ...
Richard Chapman
doaj  

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

open access: yesHum Mutat, 2022
Rambla J   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Conceptualising English as a lingua franca (ELF) as a tertiary classroom language

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2010
This contribution draws on the notion of English as a lingua franca, especially as discussed in James (2006) and Smit (2010), to conceptualise English-medium tertiary education in settings where English functions as additional language and where ...
Smit, Ute
doaj   +1 more source

Las bases geográficas de la lengua vehicular del imperio inca

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2013
This article challenges the generally held theory that claims that the lingua franca of the Inca empire had its origin in a now extinct Quechuan dialect which was believed to have been spoken on the central coast of Peru.
César Itier
doaj   +1 more source

The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

open access: yes, 2019
Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored.
Nile Green
semanticscholar   +1 more source

English as a native language, World Englishes and English as a lingua franca-informed materials: acceptance, perceptions and attitudes of Chinese English learners

open access: yesAsian Englishes, 2018
This article aims to explore whether well-attested findings of World Englishes (WE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) research have been included in Chinese English language teaching (ELT) materials and how Chinese English learners perceive English as
Jinghui Si
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are Englishes as lingua franca?

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
It is well-known that English is a global language. People around the world are not speaking a certain type of English but different varieties of English. With the increasingly awareness of this phenomenon, the word “Englishes” has been widely applied.
openaire   +2 more sources

Evolving a lingua franca and associated software infrastructure for computational systems biology: the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) project [PDF]

open access: green, 2004
Michael Hucka   +10 more
openalex   +1 more source

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