Research on English as a lingua franca(ELF)has triggered a debate on whether English teaching should consistently conform to native-speaker Standard English or it should value the pedagogical implications of ELF.This ...
In my viewpoint comment, I will touch on issues concerning language learning as individual and social construction, the relationship between English as a lingua franca (ELF) and English language teaching (ELT), an...
Based on the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) and the British National English (BNC), I investigated the features of discourse marker (DM) so in English as lingua franca (ELF) by comparing it with its use in nati...
This is a qualitative study of the types of segmental repair that maintain mutual intelligibility in English-as-a-Lingua-Franca interactions among Chinese and Japanese speakers of English (Jenkins, 2000; Matsumoto 20...
sponsored by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education,The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia
The global spread of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has implications for practice in English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms. This paper presents a study on attitudes toward ELF which is crucial to its incorp...
supported by National Social Science Fund of China[Grant No.15BYY179]
This study described the functions of you know and I mean in contexts of academic seminar discussions by ELF speakers. The data used in the study consisted of the multicultural discussions in the corpus of English as ...
supported by the Human and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education entitled "The International Intelligibility of English Spoken by Chinese University Students"(Grant No.11YJC740142);the Fundamental Research Funds for National University;China University of Geosciences(Grant No.CUG130105)
This paper reports an empirical study on the intelligibility of English spoken by Chinese University students, aiming to identify the factors that hamper intelligibility and suggest the pedagogical priorities in pronu...
Many scholars nowadays suggest that English teaching in places such as China should be based on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) rather than native-speaker styles of speech. Crucial for this is the Lingua Franca Core ...