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  1. Jan 26, 2019 · English has ascended as the dominant global lingua franca, an essential tool in international diplomacy, global business, and higher education. As noted by P.Rao [14], English facilitates ...

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  2. This paper focuses on English as a lingua franca, an area of research that has gone through several phases of reconceptualization over recent years. What has not changed despite the reframing is the insistence that ELF, with its focus on intelligibility rather than formal accuracy, is not to be judged on the basis of standard English norms. In response to these claims, researchers have argued ...

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  4. 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
  5. Feb 26, 2024 · In today’s globalized context, English is not only an essential tool for international discourse but also the premier foreign language in numerous countries, with its symbolic stature and status...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Jan 18, 2022 · The justifications for English — or any language — as a global lingua franca are based primarily in economic efficiency.

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