The current global status of the English language as a lingua franca has been running several discussions in realm Teaching Foreign Language (TEFL) (ANJOS, 2019; 2017; SIQUEIRA, 2020; DUBOC; 2020). Accordingly, many research works, mostly those Lingua Franca (ELF) (JENKINS, 2009; SCHMITZ, 2012), corroborate need for new orientations TEFL based on native-speaker standards. In this paper, we argu...

Due to the global scale of English use, as a lingua franca (ELF) is at play. Given this reality, exposes different varieties rather than single variety English, preparing second language learners Englishes paramount for readiness involve in ELF communication. This paper reports on classroom instruction exposing college listeners with via TED talks using portfolio find out how they see these and...

Geography studies the world. Our knowledge of world, however, comes mostly from Anglophone sources. This makes in urgent need worlding – including multiple voices and languages around Introducing notion linguistic privilege, article establishes language as an important dimension epistemic struggle, alongside gender, race, class others. Its analysis finds greatest privilege most influential posi...

In this study I aimed to investigate the impact of a Global Englishes for Language Teaching course on teachers’ attitudes towards teaching English as global language. employed an intervention research design make comparison between control group and group. Forty-four Saudi preservice inservice teachers participated in study. The findings pre-questionnaire both groups showed positive perspective...

This paper investigates the use of reduplicated English elements as aspects Nigerian usage in speech events among participants Calabar, a multilingual city Southern Nigeria. The study adopts Variationist Sociolinguistics and Sociopragmatic Competence theoretical foundations because both account for occurrence variation semantic change resulting from interference L1 other factors. data were gene...