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English as a lingua franca and linguistic justice: insights from exchange students’ experiences

This paper focuses on English as a lingua franca, an area of research that
has gone through several phases of reconceptualization over recent years. What
has not changed despite the reframing is the insistence that ELF, with its focus on
intelligibility rather than formal accuracy, is not to be judged on the basis of
standard English norms. In response to these claims, researchers have argued from
linguo-political and philosophical perspectives that re-labelling English ‘ELF’
does not remove native-speaker privileges and linguistic injustice. This paper
addresses the topic by presenting some results of an investigation into students’
language choices and practises during study abroad. Drawing on data gained by
means of a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews, it will show that,
despite their use of English in lingua franca situations, a considerable number of
students adhere to standard English as an appropriate model and measure their
own proficiency in English and progress in language learning against nativespeaker
norms.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92094
Date14 June 2024
CreatorsFiedler, Sabine
PublisherMouton de Gruyter
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation0165-2516, 1613-3668, 10.1515/ijsl-2021-0075

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