Sökning: "English as the Lingua Franca"

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  1. 1. Identity Changes for Iraqi Employees in Multinational Corporations Using English as the Lingua Franca

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Sarezh Majeed Hamad Amin Ahlgren; [2023-11-01]
    Nyckelord :Iraqi Employees; English; multinational organizations; English as the Lingua Franca; Identity Change; Linguistic Identity;

    Sammanfattning : With the help of this study, I aim to understand how Iraqi employees whose first language is Arabic, deal with situations where they have to speak English in their workplace, and how their identity changes. Through this study, a better understanding of how people go through and experience such a drastic change in their daily lives. LÄS MER

  3. 2. WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOU USE ENGLISH AT WORK? A STUDY OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHINA

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Huan Luo; [2023-02-17]
    Nyckelord :English; English as a lingua franca; ELF; intercultural communication; workplace; multinational corporations; MNCs; China;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigated when Chinese business professionals use English as a lingua franca to communicate in the workplace, what changes, and why and how the changes happen. 14 respondents who had Chinese as L1 and English as at least one of their working languages participated in the open-ended questions survey. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Is it enough to be understood? A study of teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom

    L3-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Författare :Martin Silva; [2023]
    Nyckelord :accents; teacher attitudes; pronunciation; English as a lingua franca; World Englishes; nativelikeness; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom. The central theoretical base for this study is English as a lingua franca (ELF), which proposes that intelligibility is the key to communication in English between people from different backgrounds. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Extramural English and its Impact on Swedish Learners’ Written Proficiency : An Analysis of Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Lower Secondary School Writing

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Christiane Kluender; [2023]
    Nyckelord : SLA ; extramural English; written proficiency; complexity accuracy; fluency;

    Sammanfattning : English holds a significant status as a lingua franca in Sweden, offering regular contact opportunities for learners through media consumption and entertainment, starting at a young age. Exposure to English outside the walls of the formal language classroom has been extensively studied especially in conjunction with students’ motivation, vocabulary acquisition, and oral proficiency (cf. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Equally non-native? : Investigating the attitudes of Swedish students towards Swedish and Arabic L2 English speakers

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Alva Liljegren; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Language attitudes; Verbal guise; ELF; ELT; World Englishes; Sweden.;

    Sammanfattning : The increasing use of English as a lingua franca has led to the emergence of many nonnative varieties, but research indicates that despite the efforts of disciplines such as World Englishes and ELF to elevate the status of these varieties, speakers of native varieties are still valued higher by listeners all over the world. However, few studies have attempted to compare non-native varieties to each other without the presence of a contrasting native variety. LÄS MER