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- English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". ELF is "defined functionally by its use in intercultural communication rather than formally by its reference to native-speaker norms" whereas English as a second or foreign language aims at meeting native...
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Oct 6, 2024 · Many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) primarily focus on English for communication among speakers without English as their first language and recently emphasized intercultural communication within interactions.
- English as a lingua franca and interculturality: navigating ...
English as a lingua franca and interculturality. With a...
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Nov 21, 2022 · English as a lingua franca and interculturality. With a tradition dating more than 20 years back, a ‘rapidly increasing interest’ (Kecskes, Citation 2019, p. 5) can be identified in relation to English as a lingua franca (henceforth, ELF) defined as uses of English by interlocutors who do not share an L1.
May 2, 2021 · The article aims at describing the linguopragmatic features of the English used as a tool for non-native speaker - non-native speaker interaction revealed in previous research, highlighting the existing challenges of the study and identifying the possible perspectives of the research.
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
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".
KEYWORDS English as a lingua franca; interculturality; culture; structural and processual orientations, intercultural game. Since the origins of the Internet, we have witnessed accelerated flows of communication in gen-eral and an increase in intercultural practices in particular.
Dec 24, 2019 · Research into global uses of English, and particularly ELF (English as a Lingua Franca), has highlighted the diversity and fluidity of communicative practices in intercultural and transcultural communication through English.
