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  1. www.nature.com › articles › s41599/024/02821-zEnglish language hegemony: retrospect and prospect - Nature

    Feb 26, 2024 · Abstract. 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 ...

  2. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsA comprehensive overview of English as a lingua franca ...

    Jan 31, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of English as a lingua franca research - Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker & Martin Dewey, The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. London & New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xix + 620. Hardback £165/$240, ISBN 978-1-13885-532-8. - Volume 35 Issue 4

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  4. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullEnglish as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating ...

    Nov 21, 2022 · The field of studies English as a lingua franca has helped unveil this perspective on the English language after freeing it (conceptually, at least) from its ties with English as a native language as ‘the model’ to be followed, as traditionally postulated and reinforced in studies of Second Language Acquisition and English as a Foreign ...

  5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10English as a Global Lingua Franca: Lingua Frankensteinia or ...

    Nov 25, 2016 · In order to better contextualize the discussion in this chapter, a brief outline of the role of English globally is needed. For better or worse, English is currently the predominant global lingua franca, with an estimated 2 billion L2 users of the language (Crystal 2008) alongside the over 300 million L1 or mother tongue users (www.ethnologue.com).

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    • 2017

  6. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullEmplacing English as lingua franca in international higher ...

    Oct 17, 2022 · This statement reflects the rendering of English as the lingua franca of academia. Here, the need for a lingua franca (currently English) in academia can be seen as a legitimate one, as it enables international cooperation among those who share the language, but in such an environment, not having ‘the right' English skills means not being ...

  7. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Pragmatics of English as a Lingua Franca: Research and ...

    Oct 3, 2018 · Culture and language in intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca and English language teaching: Points of convergence and conflict. In Holmes, P. & Dervin, F. (Eds.), The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca (pp. 70 – 89). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.Google Scholar

  8. link.springer.com › content › pdfEnglish as a Lingua Franca and Multilingualism - Springer

    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. This means that lingua franca interactions happen, by definition, in multilingual settings: they are bi- or multilin-