English is currently described in many different ways: as "world language", "global "lingua franca", "connected etc. This article highlights the role of that being taught from three perspectives, namely a first or native language (L1), second (L2), foreign (FL) and some challenges global language.

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This article focuses on the importance of variation and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within EFL class, this language shows plurality native non-native varieties. Most interactions take place between speakers different L1, where ELF works shared code. Concerning variation, study highlights how its use allows learners to mirror cultural identity their interlocutors by developing extremely eff...

The purpose of this study is to identify the perceptions Vietnamese EFL in-service teachers and students from gifted versus non-gifted high schools towards English as a lingua franca (ELF). In quantitative study, questionnaire was utilized collect data that then analyzed using descriptive inferential statistics. results show both school had positive ELF in general each dimensions particular. Ad...

In this paper we report our analysis of the similarities between webpages that are crawled from European academic websites, and comparison of their distribution in terms of the English language variety (native English vs English as a lingua franca) and their language family (based on the country’s official language). After building a corpus of university webpages, we selected a set of relevant ...