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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92094 |
| Date | 14 June 2024 |
| Creators | Fiedler, Sabine |
| Publisher | Mouton de Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 0165-2516, 1613-3668, 10.1515/ijsl-2021-0075 |
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