Lingua Franca

Investigation of effective approaches for supporting students’ linguistic and intercultural competence in the process of learning English as an international lingua franca has generally been an issue of great concern for teachers and researchers in language education. The paper finally puts forward the suggestion that short literary texts of cultures around the world might be considered as one of the meaningful inputs in B1 EFL classrooms.

10p vialicene 02-07-2024 1 0   Download

This paper seeks to investigate the use of repetition as a pragmatic strategy to facilitate ELF communication in EMI classes. The data was gathered from six lectures of a Business Administration course taught by an American lecturer to a class of third-year Economics-majored students, all of whom were Vietnamese.

18p vispacex 16-11-2023 9 5   Download

This paper reports high school teachers’ attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (ELF) and their classroom EFL teaching practices in a province in Vietnam. This mixed-methods study involved 109 high school teachers from 11 high schools in answering the questionnaires, and 22 of them were invited for semi-structured interviews.

13p viberkshire 09-08-2023 13 7   Download

The study aims at exploring the perceptions of six Vietnamese teachers of English literature from five major universities in Hochiminh City by using unstructured interview, which focuses on two main aspects namely, (1) their perception of ELF, i.e. awareness as well as evaluation of its status in Vietnam, and (2) its influence on their teaching philosophy and practice in English Literature courses.

11p viantman 07-04-2023 14 6   Download

The term English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become the subject of considerable debate nowadays. What emerges from much of the discussion, however, is that there seems to be an excellent problem of uncertainty as to what, precisely, ELF eventually is, and how it relates to the much more firmly established field of world English as known as WE.

4p vizenvo 29-11-2022 15 6   Download

In most of the countries in Southeast Asia, the role of the English language has become more vital in all aspects than before especially after becoming members of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as English is the sole language to communicate with other member countries.

3p vipriyankagandhi 27-07-2022 13 4   Download

Tiếng Anh hiện nay được xem là ngôn ngữ toàn cầu (Global language hay Lingua franca), do đó công tác dạy và học tiếng Anh là bộ phận không thể tách rời với xu thế hội nhập và toàn cầu hóa hiện nay. Thứ nhất, tiến trình hội nhập ảnh hưởng sâu rộng đến đời sống xã hội trên thế giới và tiếng Anh trở thành phương tiện giao tiếp trong mọi lĩnh vực, do đó việc dạy và học tiếng Anh luôn gắn liền với mục tiêu và chức năng, phục vụ cho tiến trình đó;...

13p vithales 20-04-2022 95 8   Download

The increasing demand of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has resulted in the need for a lingua franca of science, technology, education, and business. The field of ESP has promptly flourished recently to play an important part in English language teaching and research. Accordingly, the desires to master technical terms to meet job requirements force people to know ESP rather than basic English for daily communication.

9p vicolinzheng 14-12-2021 32 6   Download

Results show that despite their appreciation of ELF, English is considered a foreign language (EFL) rather a lingua franca in the Vietnamese context. However, a number of concepts associated with ELF, which the participants value, have influenced their teaching in terms of material selection, class activities except for assessment where the native speaker norms concerning language use is respected.

7p sotritu 30-08-2021 15 2   Download

This study aims at first giving an overview of concepts of English as a lingua franca with a special emphasis on the notion of lingua franca core, then reflecting on the ELF finding results, teaching experiences, hopefully to some extents shedding lights on teaching English as a foreign language in the 21st century.

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Tiếng Anh hiện nay được xem là ngôn ngữ toàn cầu (Global language hay Lingua franca), do đó công tác dạy và học tiếng Anh là bộ phận không thể tách rời với xu thế hội nhập và toàn cầu hóa hiện nay.

9p vichaelice2711 04-05-2021 90 10   Download

The framework as it relates to the validation of language tests in general is presented and the model is then applied to two tests of spoken English by way of illustration. Although examples are included, the main aim is to provide a theoretical justification for a focus on comprehensibility and the inclusion of linguistic variation in the assessment of ELF and to present a validation framework that can be applied by test developers and test users.

16p nguathienthan9 08-12-2020 13 2   Download

Starting from a collection of dialects in the southern counties in England, the English language has moved far beyond its nation and has now consolidated its power as the most widely used lingua franca in the world for business, science, communication and technology, and for many other purposes (Cheshire, 1996; Crystal, 1997, 2012; Halliday, 2017). In Vietnam, since Đổi mới (Renovation) which was initiated by the Vietnam Communist Party in 1986, English has become the most important foreign language being taught and used nation-wide, second only to Vietnamese – the national language.

21p partimesinhvien 08-05-2020 14 1   Download

English has become the lingua franca in a lot of areas, including tourism industry. The aim of this contribution was to explain the way English is taught to students of Management of Travel and Tourism at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The basic teaching approaches were described, and justified. Methods of collecting as well as creating teaching materials were exemplified.

8p vihephaestus2711 25-09-2019 25 1   Download

The acceptance bias toward the traditional axis of scholarly literature confirms what publishers experience day-to-day: there are greater challenges to reviewing and making decisions on this sharp influx of content from new countries, with diverse cultures and attitudes to publishing, non-English languages (the lingua franca of academic publication in most subject areas), and a lack of publishing history.

16p docvachiase 03-05-2013 51 7   Download

Machine Translation (MT) need not be confined to inter-language activities. In this paper, we discuss inter-dialect MT in general and Cantonese-Mandarin MT in particular. Mandarin and Cantonese are two most important dialects of Chinese. The former is the national lingua franca and the latter is the most influential dialect in South China, Hong Kong and overseas. The difference in between is such that mutual intelligibility is impossible.

5p bunrieu_1 18-04-2013 40 4   Download

We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a Germanlanguage Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake. Because English has established itself as something of a global lingua franca, many languages are currently undergoing a process of introducing new loanwords borrowed from English. However, while the motivations for borrowing are well studied, including e.g.

5p nghetay_1 07-04-2013 35 1   Download

XML is the lingua franca of the Web. All designers and developers working in a web environment need a sound understanding of XML and its role in application development. Many software packages and organizations allow for the exchange of data using an XML format. Web services and RSS feeds are now commonplace.

494p trasua_123 05-01-2013 51 4   Download

There is no more authoritative pair of authors on Querying XML than Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton. Best of all, as readers of Jim's other books know, his informal writing style will teach you what you need to know about this complex subject without giving you a headache. If you need a comprehensive and accessible overview of Querying XML, this is the book you have been waiting for.

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.When Mandy Brown, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author for the job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3, has stirred the standards-based design community like the imminent arrival of HTML5. Born out of dissatisfaction with the pacing and politics of the W3C, and conceived for a web of applications (not just documents), this new edition of the web’s lingua franca has in equal measure excited, angered, and confused the web design...

96p alongsad 21-11-2012 70 19   Download