Understanding English as a Lingua Franca

Author: Barbara Seidlhofer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194426203
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A complete introduction to the theoretical nature and practical implications of English used as a lingua franca. Explore the theories and principles of English as a Lingua Franca with leading expert Barbara Seidlhofer

English as a Lingua Franca

Author: Istvan Kecskes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107103800
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.

English as a Lingua Franca

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

Book Description
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.

Interactions Across Englishes

Author: Christiane Meierkord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192285
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
The global spread of English has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another.

Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Author: Marie-Luise Pitzl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510088
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca.

Language Change

Author: Anna Mauranen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492851
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.

English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts

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

Book Description
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.

English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

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

Book Description
Based on research conducted among teachers, this text examines the role of standard language ideology in ELF attitude formation, critiques current SLA theories and ELT practices, highlights links between ELF accent attitudes and ELF identities, and includes proposals for making ELT pedagogy and testing more relevant.

Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca

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

Book Description
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.

Medical English as a Lingua Franca

Author: M. Gregory Tweedie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110697025
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
In this first book-length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative precision and urgency. Providing both evidence from their own research and analysis from (the limited number of) existing studies, the authors offer a counterpoint to the optimism regarding communicative success prevalent in ELF. The book proposes a theoretical perspective on how the various features of healthcare communication serve as important variables in shaping interaction among speakers of ELF, further enlarging our understanding of this emerging sub-field.