English As A Lingua Franca; A Threat To Multilingualism

By Y. Prihatin. 2014

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Lingua receptiva (LaRa) – remarks on the quintessence of receptive multilingualism (2012, background): “In pertinent literature on lingua franca (Alptekin, 2010; House, 2003; Seidlhofer, 2004; Seidlhofer, Breiteneder, & Pitzl, 2006, p. 5), one distinguishes between top-down (fulfilling functions in various professional domains) and bottom-up (used by speakers from all levels of society in practically…”
Teachers’ Professional Knowledge for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2016, background): “Among those, teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) has aroused particular attention, not least due to the fact that English as a lingua franca (House, 2003; Jenkins, 2013) is the most influential language worldwide (Weber, 1997) and the most commonly studied foreign language at European scho”
English as an academic lingua franca and intercultural awareness: student mobility in the transcultural university (2016, background): “Although there were some early suggestions that ELF might somehow function as an identity-neutral language (e.g. House, 2003), empirical research has shown that identity is as relevant an issue through ELF as it is with any use of language.”