Year: | 2001 | |
Short description: | Seidlhofer's "A description of English as a Lingua Franca" | |
Medium description: | Barbara Seidlhofer's "Closing a conceptual gap: the case for a description of English as a Lingua Franca". Outlines the argument that whilst there has been increased interest in English as a Global language, this has not been matched by research activity into how English is actually used as a Lingua Franca and that as a result pedagogy is still informed by descriptions of native-speaker English. Ends with a description of the "Vienna–Oxford ELF Corpus" of ELF spoken discourse. | |
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