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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
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
Jan 1, 2024 · English language learning has become a global phenomenon, with millions of learners around the world seeking to acquire proficiency in this lingua franca. One of the key factors influencing English language learning is culture.
Apr 18, 2023 · For the foreseeable future English will remain the dominant global lingua franca (a language used by people with different native languages to communicate with each other), but the role it plays in the lives of individuals or in policies will begin to change. Numbers of learners will remain stable or rise in the next ten years.
Only. twenty years ago, learning English was automatically understood to mean emulating a British or American standard model of the language. This situation, known as the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL), situates the learner as the ‘foreigner’, and measures success through proximity to the norms of the chosen native speaker model.
May 2, 2021 · The article presents an overview of modern research devoted to the study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF); The relevance of the paper is due to the increasing tendency for cooperation in the spheres of diplomacy, business and education that necessitates the agents of global communication to use a universal tool for mutual comprehension.
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Nov 25, 2016 · The increasing spread of English as a global lingua franca has resulted in extensive use of the language in settings which are not traditionally associated with English. This has been particularly true of education, where English has become the medium of many academic practices including instruction in non-Anglophone settings (Mauranen 2012 ...
