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English as a Lingua Franca by Seidlhofer Barbara. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is English as a Lingua Franca about?

// ELT Journal. Volume 59/4 — October 2005. — P. 339-341 In recent years, the term ‘English as a lingua franca’ (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. Since roughly only one out of every four users of English in the world is a native speaker of the language (Crystal 2003), most ELF interactions take place among ‘non-native’ speakers of English. Although this does not preclude the participation of English native speakers in ELF interaction, what is distinctive about ELF is that, in most cases, it is ‘a ‘contact language’ between persons who share neither a common native tongue nor a common (national) culture, and for whom English is the chosen foreign language of communication.’

Who reads English as a Lingua Franca?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Seidlhofer Barbara.
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Language

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