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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.
Sep 5, 2017 · Abstract. Multilingualism is widespread in the world today and English is, in many cases, one of the languages in the multilingual speaker's repertoire. English as a lingua franca (ELF) is used by multilingual speakers who can also communicate in other languages and use their multilingual and multicultural resources in creative ways.
The paper found that English language is a foreign and an imposed one, it has so far been the most expedient language for Nigeria"s politics, administration and lingua franca, has on one ways ...
Jul 23, 2021 · 2.3 EMI, ELF and Translanguaging in Asia. Like ELF, EMI is a relatively new phenomenon and, like ELF, it has expanded significantly in the last few decades with the implementation of EMI programs far outpacing research in the area (Dafouz & Smit, 2016; Dearden, 2014) and there are still ongoing debates about how best to define it (Baker & Hüttner, 2019).
Extract. English as a lingua franca (ELF) refers to ‘any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice, and often the only option’ (Seidlhofer, 2011, p. 7*). ELF research started relatively recently. It was only discussed occasionally in the last century.
Mar 6, 2017 · Kachru spent years describing how others took hold of and adapted English. With the UK preparing to retreat from the EU and Donald Trump promising to clamp down on free trade, we could see the ...
as a global language or English as a lingua franca or English as an international language. Even if there is a variation in vocabulary while using these terms, they give almost the same
