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The promotion of English worldwide that resulted in English becoming the new lingua franca has many economic, cultural, and social causes, but it is a fact that: “English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace” (Phillipson, 1992, p. 7).
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English has established its position as the global lingua franca beyond any doubt; along with this status, it has become one of the symbols of our time, together with globalisation, networking, economic integration, and the Internet.
The phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has a number of implications for the practice of English language teaching. Firstly, it requires learners to rethink their goals: do they need their English to live and work in an English-speaking culture, or are they going to use it for international communication with other non-native speakers?
English is considered the lingua franca of international commerce (Komori-Glatz, 2018) as well as science (Suzina, 2021), medicine (Tweedie and Johnson, 2019), and, importantly, technology...
The role of the language as a lingua franca in some areas is of particular interest. On all these matters, a popular book by the linguist Crystal (2003) with the same title as this chapter is ...
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Apr 11, 2018 · English as a lingua franca is today used in many domains across many different ethnic groups, nation states and regions, and it is steadily becoming more important as a default language in many parts of Asia. As a lingua franca, English is also the first truly global language in history.
Jan 1, 2016 · Over the last century, English has been developing into the first truly global lingua franca . A lingua franca is most generally defined as a medium of communication among people who do not share a first language.
