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English fulfills the need for a global lingua franca, as it has spread to large areas of the world due to various factors such as: Spread of the Latin script ; Colonisation, mainly by the British Empire , [a] thereby making English into the language with the most countries recognizing it as an official language ;
May 8, 2020 · Citing Literature. Volume 39, Issue 3. September 2020. Pages 528-541. Abstract Over the past few decades, English has emerged as a lingua franca and the dominant foreign language in the fast developing and populous society of Vietnam, placing the country in the cente...
- Phuong Minh Tran, Kenneth Tanemura
- 2020
How the English Language Became the Global Lingua Franca. The English language didn’t seal its current status as the world’s common language until the late 1980s. Let’s explore the steps that led up to the adoption of a new international language. Taking a look at the predecessors of English as a lingua franca (ELF), we will begin to ...
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.
- Juliane House
- jhouse@fastmail.fm
- 2018
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Oct 28, 2014 · English as the Global Lingua Franca (EGLF) has become a means of universal communication not only between the native speakers of English and speakers of English as the second language, but also between people with different native languages.
- Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
- 2014
Nov 25, 2016 · The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be viewed as providing an unprecedented opportunity for intercultural exchange. However, there have been concerns that the dominance of English may result in linguistic and cultural ‘imperialism’ by the Anglophone settings from which the language originates.
May 31, 2018 · We argue that it is not appropriate to frame the status of English in Viet Nam using the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL)–English-as-a-second-language (ESL) binary, but that English is moving towards English as a lingua franca (ELF) and English as an international language (EIL).
