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Barbara Seidlhofer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca
2009Co-Authors: Margie Berns, Jennifer Jenkins, Marko Modiano, Barbara Seidlhofer, Yasukata YanoAbstract:The following contribution is a joint article by the above authors, which summarizes the results of a workshop on English as a Lingua Franca at the 13th annual IAWE conference. The authors critically examine the Kachruvian terminology and present five complementary perspectives on the use of English as a Lingua Franca.The Lingua Franca Movement has not only adopted the construct Lingua Franca, but has also redefined it. In doing so, the formal properties of a variety of a language, in this case Lingua Franca English (LFE), and its communicative function are both denoted by the term. However, this act of naming has initiated considerable discussion not only about the canonical meaning of Lingua Franca as a linguistic concept, but in addition has invited scrutiny of the assumptions and theoretical underpinnings of LFE research. This paper extends such scrutiny of the relationship of LFE to English in Europe and the adequacy of “Lingua Franca” to represent the sociolinguistic realities of World Englishes.
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common ground and different realities world englishes and english as a Lingua Franca
World Englishes, 2009Co-Authors: Barbara SeidlhoferAbstract:ABSTRACT: This paper argues that the ‘world Englishes paradigm’ and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research, despite important differences, have much in common. Both share the pluricentric assumption that ‘English’ belongs to all those who use it, and both are concerned with the sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and applied linguistic implications of this assumption. For example, issues of language contact, variation and change, linguistic norms and their acceptance, ownership of the language, and expression of social identities are central to both WE and ELF research. The growing body of descriptive ELF research that is now becoming available can thus add substance to work in the field as a whole. It can also offer fresh perspectives on several theoretical constructs central to WE, such as ‘community’, ‘variety’, ‘Lingua Franca’, even ‘language’.
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accommodation and the idiom principle in english as a Lingua Franca
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2009Co-Authors: Barbara SeidlhoferAbstract:Although it is acknowledged that English is now being appropriated as a Lingua Franca by users all over the world, and being put to effective communicative use without needing to conform to native speaker norms of ‘correctness’, there remains an entrenched reluctance to grant the same kind of legitimacy to this ‘Expanding Circle’ variation that is now generally accorded to ‘Outer Circle’ varieties (Kachru 1985; Seidlhofer and Jenkins 2003). The non-conformity of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) still tends to be stigmatized as an aberration. Our purpose in this paper is to argue, and demonstrate, that the very non-conformity of its formal features is symptomatic of processes that characterize any natural use of language.
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english as a Lingua Franca
Elt Journal, 2005Co-Authors: Barbara SeidlhoferAbstract:In recent years, the term ‘English as a Lingua Franca’ (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. Since roughly only one out of every four users of English in the world is a native speaker of the language (Crystal 2003), most ELF interactions take place among ‘non-native’ speakers of English. Although this does not preclude the participation of English native speakers in ELF interaction, what is distinctive about ELF is that, in most cases, it is ‘a ‘contact language’ between persons who share neither a common native tongue nor a common (national) culture, and for whom English is the chosen foreign language of communication’ (Firth 1996: 240).
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10 research perspectives on teaching english as a Lingua Franca
ACM Sigapl Apl Quote Quad, 2004Co-Authors: Barbara SeidlhoferAbstract:This chapter shows just how deeply affected English has already been through its unprecedented spread, and the unique function it has as the world language. It argues, however, that it would be premature to launch into a discussion of the teaching of this Lingua Franca before certain prerequisites have been met. The most important of these are a conceptualization of speakers of Lingua Franca English as language users in their own right, and the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of, and indeed the need for, a description of salient features of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), alongside English as a native language (ENL). The presentation summarizes the empirical research into the Lingua Franca use of English, which has recently gathered considerable momentum. It sets this research in relation to other relevant work in descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics for language pedagogy. Finally, it discusses the implications of this historically unique situation for potential developments in the pedagogy of English teaching and outlines some research questions that must be addressed if advances in the teaching of English as a Lingua Franca are to have a secure theoretical and descriptive base.
Sri Samiati Tarjana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the departure point in raising teacher s awareness toward the atmosphere of Lingua Franca case
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2020Co-Authors: Ambar Jati, Endang Fauziati, Sri Samiati TarjanaAbstract:There has been growing attentiveness in the English teaching literature of the prominence of English as Lingua Franca (ELF). The foremost position of English as language of global citizen should be raised up in the communication traffic in the world. Research under the case study design had been done to reveal teacher’s belief and their responses in the wave of English as Lingua Franca features in expanding circle, Indonesia. The researchers conducted the study at an Indonesian International School in Surakarta which involved two teachers as the participants by employing interview and unstructured questionnaire to collect the data. The result evidently showed that teachers in expanding circle were aware about the evolvement of English as Lingua Franca in the world. They believed that the features of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) are unproblematic as long as it does not change the fundament of their utterances. Henceforth, the teachers support the lexico-grammar features of ELF. In their speaking class, teachers give tolerance to the students who appearing these features in their classroom interaction. Furthermore, the result of this research could inspire other teachers to be more aware toward the evolvement of ELF, so that they could integrate and apply the relevancy of ELF in teaching learning process.
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The Departure Point in Raising Teacher’s Awareness toward the Atmosphere of Lingua Franca Case
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2020Co-Authors: Ambar Jati, Endang Fauziati, Sri Samiati TarjanaAbstract:There has been growing attentiveness in the English teaching literature of the prominence of English as Lingua Franca (ELF). The foremost position of English as language of global citizen should be raised up in the communication traffic in the world. Research under the case study design had been done to reveal teacher’s belief and their responses in the wave of English as Lingua Franca features in expanding circle, Indonesia. The researchers conducted the study at an Indonesian International School in Surakarta which involved two teachers as the participants by employing interview and unstructured questionnaire to collect the data. The result evidently showed that teachers in expanding circle were aware about the evolvement of English as Lingua Franca in the world. They believed that the features of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) are unproblematic as long as it does not change the fundament of their utterances. Henceforth, the teachers support the lexico-grammar features of ELF. In their speaking class, teachers give tolerance to the students who appearing these features in their classroom interaction. Furthermore, the result of this research could inspire other teachers to be more aware toward the evolvement of ELF, so that they could integrate and apply the relevancy of ELF in teaching learning process.
Juliane House - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Impact of English as a Global Lingua Franca on Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication in Asia: Education Language and Values, 2018Co-Authors: Juliane HouseAbstract:This chapter first examines the concept “Lingua Franca”, moving from an historical overview to the present status of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). English as a Lingua Franca is today used in many domains across many different ethnic groups, nation states and regions, and it is steadily becoming more important as a default language in many parts of Asia. As a Lingua Franca, English is also the first truly global language in history. And it is this unrivalled position of English today which has thrown up massive criticism – criticism directed at the assumption of the cultural neutrality of English as a Lingua Franca, at the elitist nature of English in many parts of the world, and at its potential for harming local languages in Asia. These points of criticism will be examined in the chapter from a socio-cultural and economic perspective.
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Managing academic institutional discourse in English as a Lingua Franca
Functions of Language, 2014Co-Authors: Juliane HouseAbstract:The study presented in this paper examines the discourse behaviour of participants in academic office hours conducted in English as a Lingua Franca. Participants in the study are professors, their assistants and international students at a German university. Findings of the analyses of a small corpus of such institutional interactions show that these users of English as a Lingua Franca manage the discourse surprisingly well by strategically employing code-switching, re-presenting (parts of) their interlocutors’ message and re-interpreting several high-frequency discourse markers. In this way they seem to better achieve their own and their interactants’ communicative purpose in discourse.
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The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics - Pragmatics of Lingua Franca Interaction
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012Co-Authors: Juliane HouseAbstract:This entry looks at the pragmatics of today's most important Lingua Franca: global English. In the first part, the concept of “Lingua Franca,” the nature of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and the role ELF has come to play in a globalized world are described. Second follows a review of several empirical studies on the pragmatics of ELF, and finally some conclusions are drawn. Keywords: ELF; pragmatics; Lingua Francas
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english as a Lingua Franca a threat to multiLingualism
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003Co-Authors: Juliane HouseAbstract:In this paper I argue against the widespread assumption that the English language in its role as Lingua Franca is a serious threat to national languages and to multiLingualism. I support this argument by making a distinction between ‘languages for communication’ and ‘languages for identification’. Further support for the stance against one-sidedly attacking English as a killer language will be drawn from the findings of three research projects currently being carried out at Hamburg University, one on the impact English has on discourse norms in influential genres in other languages; the second one on the nature of interactions in English as a Lingua Franca; and the third one on so-called ‘international degree programmes’, in which English is the language of instruction. Finally, I make some tentative suggestions for a new research paradigm for English as a Lingua Franca.
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communicating in english as a Lingua Franca
Eurosla Yearbook, 2002Co-Authors: Juliane HouseAbstract:This paper will first discuss the role of English as a Lingua Franca from historical and socio-political perspectives; it will then review some relevant findings of research into actual interactions conducted in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), before describing a study of ELF interactions. It will be argued that we need a new research agenda to adequately describe and explain the hitherto unknown global spread of one particular language, and the wide variety of functions, domains, situations and populations it has come to involve.
Yasukata Yano - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca
2009Co-Authors: Margie Berns, Jennifer Jenkins, Marko Modiano, Barbara Seidlhofer, Yasukata YanoAbstract:The following contribution is a joint article by the above authors, which summarizes the results of a workshop on English as a Lingua Franca at the 13th annual IAWE conference. The authors critically examine the Kachruvian terminology and present five complementary perspectives on the use of English as a Lingua Franca.The Lingua Franca Movement has not only adopted the construct Lingua Franca, but has also redefined it. In doing so, the formal properties of a variety of a language, in this case Lingua Franca English (LFE), and its communicative function are both denoted by the term. However, this act of naming has initiated considerable discussion not only about the canonical meaning of Lingua Franca as a linguistic concept, but in addition has invited scrutiny of the assumptions and theoretical underpinnings of LFE research. This paper extends such scrutiny of the relationship of LFE to English in Europe and the adequacy of “Lingua Franca” to represent the sociolinguistic realities of World Englishes.
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english as an international Lingua Franca from societal to individual
World Englishes, 2009Co-Authors: Yasukata YanoAbstract:ABSTRACT: This paper takes up three topics for discussion. The first is whether the Kachruvian three-circle model can accommodate the possible change of English use (e.g. native/non-native to individual proficiency, a special talent to a basic skill). The second is what transformation English would undergo if it survives as English as an international language (EIL)/English as Lingua Franca (ELF). The third topic is the possibility of creating what can be called a ‘supra-normative (not exo-/endo-normative) standard’ for EIL/ELF for pedagogic purposes (e.g. Lingua Franca core).
Ambar Jati - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the departure point in raising teacher s awareness toward the atmosphere of Lingua Franca case
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2020Co-Authors: Ambar Jati, Endang Fauziati, Sri Samiati TarjanaAbstract:There has been growing attentiveness in the English teaching literature of the prominence of English as Lingua Franca (ELF). The foremost position of English as language of global citizen should be raised up in the communication traffic in the world. Research under the case study design had been done to reveal teacher’s belief and their responses in the wave of English as Lingua Franca features in expanding circle, Indonesia. The researchers conducted the study at an Indonesian International School in Surakarta which involved two teachers as the participants by employing interview and unstructured questionnaire to collect the data. The result evidently showed that teachers in expanding circle were aware about the evolvement of English as Lingua Franca in the world. They believed that the features of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) are unproblematic as long as it does not change the fundament of their utterances. Henceforth, the teachers support the lexico-grammar features of ELF. In their speaking class, teachers give tolerance to the students who appearing these features in their classroom interaction. Furthermore, the result of this research could inspire other teachers to be more aware toward the evolvement of ELF, so that they could integrate and apply the relevancy of ELF in teaching learning process.
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The Departure Point in Raising Teacher’s Awareness toward the Atmosphere of Lingua Franca Case
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2020Co-Authors: Ambar Jati, Endang Fauziati, Sri Samiati TarjanaAbstract:There has been growing attentiveness in the English teaching literature of the prominence of English as Lingua Franca (ELF). The foremost position of English as language of global citizen should be raised up in the communication traffic in the world. Research under the case study design had been done to reveal teacher’s belief and their responses in the wave of English as Lingua Franca features in expanding circle, Indonesia. The researchers conducted the study at an Indonesian International School in Surakarta which involved two teachers as the participants by employing interview and unstructured questionnaire to collect the data. The result evidently showed that teachers in expanding circle were aware about the evolvement of English as Lingua Franca in the world. They believed that the features of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) are unproblematic as long as it does not change the fundament of their utterances. Henceforth, the teachers support the lexico-grammar features of ELF. In their speaking class, teachers give tolerance to the students who appearing these features in their classroom interaction. Furthermore, the result of this research could inspire other teachers to be more aware toward the evolvement of ELF, so that they could integrate and apply the relevancy of ELF in teaching learning process.
