NJES Volume 5, No. 2 (2006)
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Exploring Corporate Websites as a Setting for ELF Research: The Case of Ostrobothnian Export Companies
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)According to Jennifer Jenkins (2004: 63), the essential distinction between the use of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and that as a lingua franca (ELF) lies in their interlocutors' native language. Speakers (themselves ... -
VOICE Recording - Methodological Challenges in the Compilation of a Corpus of Spoken ELF
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, aims to provide a general basis for analyses of English as a lingua franca (ELF) talk on all linguistic levels. This paper discusses criteria that have to be fulfilled ... -
A Rich Domain of ELF - the ELFA Corpus of Academic Discourse
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)The academic field has used English as a lingua franca widely for a long time, and is a good choice for an ELF corpus. It is useful to restrict the scope of exploratory research in one way or another, mode and domain ... -
“Words are more or less superfluous”: the Case of more or less in Academic Lingua Franca English
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)In the past fifty years, English has turned into the leading language of international communication. Despite its well-established status as a global lingua franca, there is a lack of descriptive research on how people ... -
The 'Attractive' Progressive - Why use the -ing Form in English as a Lingua Franca?
(2006-12)In SLA literature, the 'extended' use of the progressive in L2 English production has often been considered a 'problem'. The studies have been based on elicited data and explanations for such use have ranged from first ... -
English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
(2006-12)The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models ... -
Efficiency in ELF Communication: From Pragmatic Motives to Lexico-grammatical Innovation
(2006-12)The considerable demographic shift in the use of English worldwide, with the effect that L2 speakers outnumber L1 speakers, particularly as typified in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication, is now widely acknowledged ... -
Making English Their Own: The use of ELF among Students of English at the FUB
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)This paper analyses the attitudes and motives of students studying English at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and suggests that changing opinions on national (US and UK) standards and the emergence of the 'New Europe' ...
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