"What language does global business speak?" - The concept and development of BELF [PDF]
Ibérica, 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
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The Deceiving ELF? Can Englsh fulfil the role of a Lingua Franca?
Lingue 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
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Beacon v2 and Beacon networks: A "lingua franca" for federated data discovery in biomedical genomics, and beyond. [PDF]
Hum Mutat, 2022 Rambla J +14 more
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Conceptualising English as a lingua franca (ELF) as a tertiary classroom language
Stellenbosch 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
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Las bases geográficas de la lengua vehicular del imperio inca
Bulletin 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
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Language choice and global learning networks: The pitfall of “lingua franca” approaches to classroom telecomputing1 [PDF]
, 1999 Dennis Sayers
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The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
, 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
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Asian 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
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Are Englishes as lingua franca?
Journal 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.
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Evolving a lingua franca and associated software infrastructure for computational systems biology: the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) project [PDF]
, 2004 Michael Hucka +10 more
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