Rather a lingua franca

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.

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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.

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