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Jun 15, 2020 · The term English as a lingua franca (ELF) refers to the teaching, learning, and use of the English language as a common means of communication for speakers of different native languages.
- Richard Nordquist
Jan 26, 2024 · So, what makes a language a lingua franca? It is simply a shared foreign language used by two parties that speak other different languages. Primarily, this is about international communication. English being so widely spoken facilitates transnational correspondence and relations – it is the unofficial language of science, technology and business.
Sep 2, 2019 · 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*).
- Yuan-shan Chen, Wei Ren, Chih-Ying Lin
- 2020
Jun 20, 2017 · A lingua franca is a second language that people from different countries have in common, and it makes international communication possible. It might seem like a given that English is the world’s lingua franca, but how did it get to be that way and whatever happened to French?
Dec 30, 2011 · More recently there has been much interest in and debate concerning the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF). However, there has been little empirical investigation into what communication through ELF might mean for an understanding of the relationships between languages and cultures.
- Will Baker
- 2009
Nov 21, 2022 · The growth in streams of online intercultural communication goes hand in hand with the use of English as a lingua franca. In this article, I argue that there are synergies between the theory and analytical notions developed in the frameworks of ELF and Intercultural Studies (specifically the notion of ‘interculturality’).
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A lingua franca is a language that is used widely outside the country where it is spoken as a native language. Lingua Francas can change over time. Example: French, Greek, Portuguese and Latin have all been major lingua franca at some point in history. The current lingua franca of international business is English. In the classroom.
