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 present research was an attempt to shed more enlightening light on the current wave of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), which is gradually sweeping the traditional ideologies in the field of ELT. To that end, this study examined the Iranian teacher trainees’ attitude towards ELF. What makes the present research markedly different from the other language attitude studies is in the context o...

In recent years, English language teaching has seen a trend away from continued dependence on native-speaker norms in favour of teaching based on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). In particular, this involves the Lingua Franca Core (LFC) of those features of English pronunciation that are claimed to ensure intelligibility but at the same time permit substantial local variation. The suggestion i...