Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a Lingua Franca
By J. Jenkins. 2015
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Abstract In the relatively few years since empirical research into English as a Lingua Franca began being conducted more widely, the field has developed and expanded remarkably, and in myriad ways. In particular, researchers have explored ELF from the perspective of a range of linguistic levels and in an ever-increasing number of sociolinguistic contexts, as well as its synergies with the field of Intercultural Communication and its meaning for the fields of Second Language Acquisition and English as a Foreign Language. The original orientation to ELF communication focused heavily, if not exclusively, on form. In light of increasing empirical evidence, this gave way some years later to an understanding that it is the processes underlying these forms that are paramount, and hence to a focus on ELF users and ELF as social practice. It is argued in this article, however, that ELF is in need of further retheorisation in respect of its essentially multilingual nature: a nature that has always been present in ELF theory and empirical work, but which, I believe, has not so far been sufficiently foregrounded. This article therefore attempts to redress the balance by taking ELF theorisation a small step further in its evolution.
Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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- ‘A more inclusive mind towards the world’: English language teaching and study abroad in China from intercultural citizenship and English as a lingua franca perspectives (2018, background): “Accompanying this is a wider perspective on the goals of language learning in which the typically narrow communicative competence of ELT, with its emphasis on linguistic competence, is expanded to include pragmatic competence (Jenkins, 2015) and intercultural awareness (Baker, 2015).”
- English as an academic lingua franca and intercultural awareness: student mobility in the transcultural university (2016, methodology): “There is no space here to provide detailed explanations of each of these terms (but see Jenkins 2015 for a good overview); however, they all share a concern with the limitations of artificially isolating linguistic resources in terms of specific languages in research into communicative practices in…”
- Design of online intelligent English teaching platform based on artificial intelligence techniques (2020, background): “Test variables has been chosen B , As shown in Equation (8) where is the subset R i weight and the information entropy can be derived from the above Equation (9): As shown in Equation (9) where Q ji is the likelihood that random data sample in the subset R i belongs to class D j and Q ji is calculat”