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ELF on a Mushroom: The Overnight Growth in English as a Lingua Franca
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Sowden, Colin – ELT Journal, 2012
In an effort to curtail native-speaker dominance of global English, and in recognition of the growing role of the language among non-native speakers from different first-language backgrounds, some academics have been urging the teaching of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Although at first this proposal seems to offer a plausible alternative to…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Official Languages
Addressing the Issue of Teaching English as a Lingua Franca
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Kuo, I-Chun – ELT Journal, 2006
The status of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become an increasingly popular discourse in Applied Linguistics and current ELT. It has been suggested that native speakers and their Englishes have become relatively unimportant in international communication and that research interests should now fall on non-native speakers and their use of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction, Models, English (Second Language)