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Jan 18, 2022 · Will Mandarin, with its 1.11 billion speakers, eventually replace English as the world’s lingua franca? Will Google or Microsoft Translate moot the issue?
Feb 26, 2024 · This paper explores the ascent of English as a global lingua franca within the context of linguistic hegemony, following Phillipson’s 1992 framework. It scrutinizes English’s role in the ...
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Between 1780 and 1820 there was some support for an academy on the French model that could codify the particularities of English in America and frame English as the national language of the US (Baron 1982; Andresen 1990).
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In the study, 53 students, who actively participated in an English class at the Center for English as a Lingua Franca at Tamagawa University, were trained to use communicative strategies in pro-active listening comprehension activities.
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English has emerged as the first global language is it possible to explain how that happened. As recounted in this book, the expan-sion of English occurred over two millennia, gaining ground very slowly in the British Isles, at a more rapid pace in North America, and then globally with growing speed in recent decades. Although
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".
Apr 19, 2024 · English originated in England and is the dominant language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various island nations in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
