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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"lingua franca"”.
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English as a lingua franca: developing a tool to improve international business 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 communication for better …
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Translation and the lingua franca in scientific communication: The case of the scientific community from Mexico
… intends to study the influence of English as the lingua franca in scientific publication and the changes that such influence has caused in the written production of RA by Mexican researchers in Spanish as the L1 and English as the L2. Additionally, this thesis analyses the representation of …
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English use at the six social service centers in Reykjavík: English as the lingua Franca of social services in Reykjavik
… on a daily basis. English has become a lingua franca in many companies and private and public institutions in Iceland where it may primarily be used among non-native speakers. Previous research done at the University of Iceland suggests that Icelandic users of English may overestimate …
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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
… how students navigate IC in English as a lingua franca (ELF) VE environment. This study adopts an exploratory qualitative design, combining digital ethnography (Hine, 2015) with a multiple case study approach (Yin, 2014), to examine the interculturality (Dervin, 2016) experiences of …
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Learning to Ground Multi-Agent Communication with Autoencoders
… requires having a common language, a lingua franca, between agents. This language could emerge via a consensus process between agents, but this may require many generations of trial and error. Alternatively, the lingua franca can be given by the environment, where agents ground their …
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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)
… thesis probes the limitations of English as “Lingua Franca” through comparing authors, topics, and the use of references in the <em>Collections of Women’s Studies</em> (<em>CWS</em>), the most prestigious feminist journal in China, with <em>Signs</em>, one of the core feminist journals in the …
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O ensino de inglês como língua desnacionalizada e a dimensão cultural: a visão de professores formadores
… work investigates how its condition as a global lingua franca, within a theoretical basis in full development, and issues concerning the adoption of an intercultural approach to teaching are understood and materialized by teacher educators of a Letters/English course at the State University of …
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Mother Tongue Interference in English Language Pronunciation of the Chinese Immigrant in the United States
… used languages in the world. As an unofficial lingua franca, it serves a key role in cross-cultural communication. Chinese immigrants in the US will certainly encounter many difficulties in acquiring L2 proficiency. Some of these challenges are tied to 1) Chinese immigrants’ history in the US …
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Developing a play: A dance for Leningrad
… Naturalism using dance movement as part of the lingua franca. The play presents a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during 1941-1955 covering the period of World War Two and the siege of Leningrad. It shows the courage of a gifted ballerina who endures a repressive regime, near …
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Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism
… speech-form. This is describable as a simplified lingua franca or koine gangétique containing elements of all dialects, but eliminating the most obtrusive dialect differences; the result was a more homogenized communication medium which allowed for rapid dissemination of the Buddha's teachings …
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USING CORPORA IN A LEXICALIZED STYLISTICS APPROACH TO TEACHING ENGLISH-AS-A-FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE
<p>As a lingua franca across the globe, English plays a vital role in international communications. Due to rapid economic, political, and educational globalization, the English language has become a powerful means of communication. Therefore, English education is vital to the development of many …
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Language Attitudes Among English-Learning Hungarian Students
… characteristics of English and its position as a lingua franca, as well as the language attitudes of Hungarian English-speaking students, based on an online questionnaire. Additionally, the properties and types of bilingualism are discussed in the beginning of the thesis. Respective to this …
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Language maintenance and shift among the Rehoboth Basters of Namibia ca. 1868-2008
… and has been the dominant language as well as lingua franca in Rehoboth for some hundred years but could be losing these positions to English because of function and status loss and changes in the demographic mix of the area after Namibia's Independence in 1990. The Afrikaans-speaking Rehoboth …
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Intercultural awareness and intercultural communication through English: an investigation of Thai English language users in higher education
… in settings where English is used as a global lingua franca the cultural associations of the language are complex and the role culture plays in successful communication has yet to be extensively investigated. To conduct such a study it is necessary to explicate the role and nature of English in …
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Exploring ESL learner accent preferences: a longitudinal study
… how English accents play a role in English as a lingua franca communication. Furthermore, participants’ concerns about achieving target-like pronunciation versus intelligibility as a model in L2 communication were found to be among the main pragmatic considerations in their own L2 accent …
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A kultúraközi menedzsment eltérő koncepciói - Egy magyar multinacionális vállalat példáján keresztül = The Various Concepts of Cross-cultural Management - Insights from a Hungarian multinational company
… központban a magyar volt, az angol, mint lingua franca szakadékot hozott létre, megosztotta a vállalatot a magyarul és a nem magyarul beszélő munkavállalói csoportokra. Egy általános vállalati nyelvi politikát a székhely egyirányúan közli a leányvállalatokkal, de a Hun-Comp esetében ez …
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other oceans, other skies
… influence and dominance of English as the global lingua franca while encouraging viewers to reflect on their own self-perception and confront prejudices towards those they perceive as <em>Other</em>.</p>
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Strategies to Reduce Foreign Language Anxiety in Adult EFL Students of the European Union
… As English is now firmly positioned as the <em>lingua franca</em> in the European Union and is the most commonly spoken foreign language throughout the E.U., working adults are often required to learn English for job security or advancement. EFL teachers can use the strategies in this project to …
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