English as a Lingua Franca

English as a Lingua Franca

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  • Author: Ian Mackenzie
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134503881
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism and intercultural communication sociolinguistic issues including accent and identity classroom teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca is a useful guide for teachers and trainee teachers, and will be essential reading for advanced students and linguists concerned with multilingualism, language contact, language learning, language change, and the place of English in the world today.


Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe

Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe

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  • Author: Zoi Tatsioka
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501503111
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 269

This volume examines the role of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in education in Europe. Following the implementation of the Bologna process, English has assumed a central role in European education offering institutions the opportunity to cater to the needs of an internationalized student body and increase their competitiveness. On the other hand, the increased use of ELF has become an issue of concern, often perceived as a threat to other languages, tilting the scale towards linguistic inequality and stressing the urgent need for the development of new language policies. Both aspects of ELF are at the center of discussion in the proposed volume, which consists of a variety of papers examining ELF in different parts of Europe (Eastern, Central and Western) and different levels of education. The volume makes a substantial contribution to the lively and controversial debate about what is recognized as a central topical concern of language education policy in Europe and beyond.


English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education

English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education

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  • Author: Ute Smit
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110215519
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 477

With English-medium higher education burgeoning in Europe and elsewhere outside the English-speaking world, this book is the first to offer an ethnographically-embedded analysis of such classroom discourse by taking cognizance of English functioning as a lingua franca (ELF) in international student groups. By virtue of investigating one such educational programme in its entirety, the study also enlarges the present knowledge on ELF discourse as it offers novel insights into the interactional dynamics that shape and develop an educational community of practice.


Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca

Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca

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  • Author: Robin Walker
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0194658856
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio links explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students. It covers techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation, including planning and assessment and the influence of learners' first language pronunciation. The audio links feature dialogues between ELF speakers from fifteen different first language backgrounds.


English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts

English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts

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  • Author: Nicos C. Sifakis
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 178892178X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

This book explores the interfaces of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy. It presents the theoretical aspects of ELF, discusses issues and challenges that ELF raises for the EFL classroom, and demonstrates how EFL practitioners can make use of ELF theorizing for classroom instruction, teacher education, developing language learning materials, policymaking and testing and assessment. Accounts of innovative and practical pedagogical practices and researchers’ insights from diverse geographical, cultural and institutional contexts will inform and inspire EFL practitioners to reconsider their practices and adopt new techniques in order to meet their learners’ diverse communicative needs in international contexts.


Teacher Education for English as a Lingua Franca

Teacher Education for English as a Lingua Franca

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  • Author: Subhan Zein
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351397826
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This edited collection responds to a gap in the literature by presenting a much-needed examination of both the theoretical and practical aspects of teacher education for English as a lingua franca in Indonesia. Through a series of extended research-based and conceptual chapters written by experts in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) in and about Indonesia, this book offers an insight into Indonesia’s unique cultural, social and institutional contexts. The content focuses on four interrelated themes: the transition of perspective from English as a foreign language (EFL) to English as a lingua franca (ELF); the knowledge base of ELF pedagogy; teacher agency and identity in ELF; and innovations in teacher education for ELF. This book is highly relevant to English teachers, teacher educators and scholars worldwide aspiring to broaden their horizon and professionalism in the teaching of ELF.


International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca

International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca

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  • Author: Hugo Bowles
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137398094
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

This collection brings new insight into the relationship between English as a lingua franca and language teaching. It explores how the pedagogy of intelligibility, culture and language awareness, as well as materials analysis and classroom management, can be viewed from an ELF perspective in school and university contexts.


English as a Lingua Franca

English as a Lingua Franca

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  • Author: Luke Prodromou
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 0826440134
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. Through examining how idiomaticity enables first language learners to achieve a greater degree of fluency, the book explores why idiomatic language poses such a challenge for users of English as a lingua franca. The book puts forward a new definition of competence and fluency within the context of English as a lingua franca, concluding with an analysis of practical implications for the lingua franca classroom. This in-depth study of English language learning using corpus data will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and corpus linguistics and to teachers of English as an international lingua franca.


English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

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  • Author: Jennifer Jenkins
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 300

From the perspective of the speakers themselves, this is the first book to explore attitudes towards ELF in general and ELF accents in particular, their effects on ELF speakers' identities, and ways in which the problems can be addressed in teacher education, English language testing, and ELT materials.


English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education

English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education

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  • Author: Telma Gimenez
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501503855
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.