Purpose The present study aims to examine the attitudes of future Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student-teachers toward native-like pronunciation investigate their misconceptions about Lingua Franca (ELF). Design/methodology/approach researcher used questionnaire collect data for study. Findings results indicate that students and teachers have positive pronunciation. However,...

How do English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers achieve multimodal cohesion on the basis of their specific interests and cultural backgrounds? From a dialogic and collaborative view of communication, this study focuses on how verbal and nonverbal modes cohere together during intercultural conversations. The data include approximately 160-minute transcribed video recordings of ELF interactions ...

The Open Provenance Model (OPM) [20] provides a small, extensible core for representing and exchanging provenance information in a technology-neutral manner. By design, OPM is a least common denominator, leaving aside certain aspects, including how to query provenance information. Similarly, OPM comes with a set of inference rules (e.g., for transitively closing some relations, or for stating t...