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Matsuda, Aya, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2012
This book critically examines current ELT practices vis-a-vis the use of English as an international lingua franca. It bridges the gap between theoretical discussion and the practical concerns of teaching English as an international language (EIL), and presents diverse approaches for preparing competent users of English in international contexts.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jenks, Christopher Joseph – Applied Linguistics, 2012
Great diversity exists in the way English is being used in the world today. It is now not uncommon to hear a Korean and a Brazilian do business in English, or a Syrian and a Norwegian debating politics in an English-speaking chat room. As opportunities to use English increase and evolve, researchers are left with the difficult challenge of…
Descriptors: Interaction, Synchronous Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cogo, Alessia – ELT Journal, 2012
Sowden's article raises a number of questions concerning English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and criticizes it as a simplified and culturally neutral means of communication. In this response, I address the issues concerning the conceptualization and use of ELF as well as the implications for ELT. I provide up-to-date evidence of ELF research and show…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Official Languages
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Baker, Will – ELT Journal, 2012
Cultural awareness (CA) has emerged over the last few decades as a significant part of conceptualizing the cultural dimension to language teaching. That is, L2 users need to understand L2 communication as a cultural process and to be aware of their own culturally based communicative behaviour and that of others. However, while CA has provided a…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Onsman, Andrys – Higher Education Policy, 2012
The dichotomous interpretation of the assumed growth and normalisation of English as the lingua franca (ELF) of the international academy is most often polarised into a marginalisation of non-native speakers by the hegemony of native speakers on the one hand and the empowerment and upward mobility created by its potential to afford access to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Language Role
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Kircher, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2014
This paper presents a 2007 study that was conducted amongst 147 young anglophone, francophone and allophone Montrealers in order to shed light on their attitudes towards English and French in terms of status and solidarity. The study made use of both a questionnaire and a matched-guise experiment. The findings indicate that while a certain amount…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, French, English, Foreign Countries
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Saulière, Jérôme – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This article looks at France's Loi Toubon, which mandates the use of French in private companies, to illustrate how macro-level language planning reaches a dead end if it fails to consider local contexts and involve micro-level agents. The motivations, limitations and contradictions of France's language policy in relation to companies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage
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Burkholder, Casey; Filion, Marianne – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2014
In 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) implemented a requirement that all aspiring Canadians who wish to take the citizenship test must have an adequate level of English- or French-language skills, defined as Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4. The CLB 4 language policy directly and, we argue, problematically links language abilities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Schaller-Schwaner, Iris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This article considers a case of local language socialization and accommodation in a multilingual community of practice: the use of English as an additional academic language for specific purposes at a bilingual Swiss university and its implications for teaching. The acronym ELF(A) is used throughout as short for English as a Lingua Franca (in…
Descriptors: English, Official Languages, Language Role, English (Second Language)
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Kaša, Rita; Mhamed, Ali Ait Si – European Education, 2013
In the framework of the internationalization and globalization of higher education and competition for international students, the paper examines how language policy in higher education shapes the provision of study programs in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It concludes that study programs in the Baltic states mostly follow the convention of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Jenks, Christopher – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
The widespread use of English has--for better or worse--shaped the social and communicative norms and practices of many people the world over, and the likelihood of this continuing for the foreseeable future raises questions concerning English ownership, linguistic imperialism, language attrition, and mutual intelligibility, to name a few. These…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Language Variation
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Park, Joseph Sung-Yul; Wee, Lionel – World Englishes, 2011
This paper identifies several key issues that have emerged through the debate over English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and suggests a practice-based perspective--which treats language not as a fixed system but as an emergent product of speakers' practices--as a guide for reconsidering some fundamental assumptions of the ELF research project. In…
Descriptors: English, Official Languages, Language Role, Speech Communication
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
This paper focuses on designing a comprehensibility test and a questionnaire for spoken world Englishes in Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and utilizing the test to investigate the comprehension of Burmese, Cambodians, Indonesians, Laotians, Thais and Vietnamese. We reviewed the demarcation of users of English based on Kachru's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Shiohata, Mariko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Senegal adopted French as the country's sole official language at the time of independence in 1960, since when the language has been used in administration and other formal domains. Similarly, French is employed throughout the formal education system as the language of instruction. Since the 1990s, however, government has mounted an ambitious…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, Written Language, Foreign Countries
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Halvorsen, Torill Aagot – International Review of Education, 2012
The national language of Tanzania is Kiswahili. However, Tanzania has two official languages: English, introduced in colonial times, and Kiswahili, the actual "lingua franca" spoken by 99 per cent of the population. Kiswahili websites and internet content are gradually increasing, and equipment is becoming more affordable. The research…
Descriptors: African Languages, Higher Education, Educational Research, Official Languages
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