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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"English as a Lingua Franca"”.
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English as a lingua franca: developing a tool to improve international business communication
… of communication in international teams that use English as their lingua franca in a business setting. The project’s intention was to develop a training or coaching product (the doctoral artefact) that would help native speakers of English adjust cultural and linguistic aspects of their …
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Together… Alone in the Digital Terrain: Experiences of Interculturality in English as a Lingua Franca Virtual Exchange Among University Students in Canada and Jordan
Virtual exchange (VE) has enabled geographically dispersed learners of English as an Additional/Second Language (EAL/ESL) to collaborate in developing intercultural competence (IC) (O’Dowd, 2011). However, recurring applications of IC constructs that overlook technology-mediated contexts and social …
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Locating linguistic power relationships: A glimpse into transnational feminist dialogue through comparison of major feminist publications in the US and China (2000-2012)
<p>Does the use of English as a universal language in the transnational feminist dialogue empower women globally? In what way does English shape the flow of conversation by circulating some feminist knowledge while neglecting others? Through conducting content analysis research on major feminist …
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Exploring ESL learner accent preferences: a longitudinal study
This longitudinal study explored English as a Second Language (ESL) learners’ perceptions of different English accents, as well as their preferences and perceptions of their own L2 English accents. Using data collected via in-depth interviews with four undergraduate ESL students about their L2 …
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Building Common Ground in Intercultural Encounters:a Study of Classroom Interaction in an Employment Preparation Programme for Canadian Immigrants
… individuals in an employment preparation class for immigrants to Canada use communicative strategies and resources to build common ground, that is, how they use language to form a socially cohesive group that foregrounds shared knowledge, shared relational identity, in-group membership and …
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Exploring Finnish degree students' attitudes toward English as a lingua
… of native Finnish-speaking Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students’ attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF). The author of this thesis, like many ELF scholars, harbors serious concerns about the issues of language attitudes and prestige vis-à-vis ELF. The aims of this …
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O ensino de inglês como língua desnacionalizada e a dimensão cultural: a visão de professores formadores
The spread of English into four corners of the planet has called into question the way the language has been taught in the classroom. New teaching perspectives should be considered since, while it travels around the world, English is becoming more plural and no longer follows the rules of …
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Management of language diversity in international supply chain relationships of UK SMEs
Although language has claimed a place in the field of international business studies, the vast majority of research in this area has focused on language management practices in multinational organisations, and has therefore largely ignored the question of how small organisations cope with …
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A shift in international higher education preferences: Analyzing Colombian students’ trends of choosing the European Union as their destination
… the world, the role of the European Union (EU) as the union it represents, instead of the sum of the nation-states that compose it, remains relatively unexplored. When comparing the number of Colombian students traveling abroad for educational purposes before and after 2007, the United States …
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The teaching and learning of English at secondary school level in South Korea: The curriculum and its implementation
… and practices of a sample of teachers of English in South Korean secondary schools in the context of a focus point-based analysis of the South Korean national curriculum and a sample of widely used textbooks. There has been widespread criticism of the teaching of English in South Korea …
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An exploratory study of expressing disagreement in ELF academic group discussion
… Kingdom, group work is an important site of English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication. Group work can involve challenging pragmatic acts, and chief among these is, arguably, disagreement. The need to disagree amicably is important for two reasons: (1) to achieve consensus on group tasks, …
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Investigating Global Englishes-oriented teacher development through the lens of transformative learning theory: A study of South Korean elementary EFL teachers’ experiences
The field of Global Englishes (GE) has called for a paradigm shift in English language teaching (ELT) – a move away from standard English-oriented teaching to reflect the diversity, fluidity, and hybridity of English used in the global community. As teachers are important agents of change in the …
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English as the International Language of Science: A Case Study of Mexican Scientists' Writing for Publication
… advancement. However, the domination of English as an international language of science (EILS) has placed a potentially inequitable burden on multilingual periphery scholars attempting to disseminate their research findings in indexed scientific journals. While such scholars have been the …