Latest trends in ELF research / edited by Alasdair Archibald, Alessia Cogo and Jennifer Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archibald, Alasdair Neil.

Cogo, Alessia.

Jenkins, Jennifer, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Globalization.

English language.

English language--Usage.

Intercultural communication.

Communication, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF for short, is currently one of the most dynamic topics in the fields of applied and socio-linguistics and English Language Teaching. It has been a thriving field of research for the last twenty years with a growing number of books and journals dedicated to the subject. The field has also seen the foundation of an annual international ELF conference series, which started in 2008 and attracts growing numbers year on year. This book has developed out of contrib...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; THE DYNAMICS OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; CULTURE AND IDENTITY THROUGH ELF IN ASIA; "DOING BEING A LANGUAGE EXPERT"; INTONATION AS A PRAGMATIC RESOURCE IN ELF INTERACTION, REVISITED; 'BUY-LAH!'; THE SHOW OF INTERPERSONAL INVOLVEMENT AND THE BUILDING OF RAPPORT IN AN ELF COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; OLD FRIENDS?; ELF BUSINESS/BUSINESS ELF; "WHAT DO WE MEAN BY THAT?"; PART II; ACCOMMODATIVE ELF TALK AND TEACHER KNOWLEDGE; PERCEPTIONS OF ELF IN CZECH SECONDARY SCHOOLS; ELF VERSUS EFL; RESEARCHING ELF IDENTITY

INTEGRATING AN ELF PEDAGOGY IN A CHANGING WORLDWRITING ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-283-43595-0

9786613435958

1-4438-3328-2

OCLC:

778202446