1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca

Edited By Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker, Martin Dewey Copyright 2018
    640 Pages
    by Routledge

    640 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this rapidly developing field of study.
    Including 47 state-of-the art chapters from leading international scholars, the handbook covers key concepts, regional spread, linguistic features and communication processes, domains and functions, ELF in academia, ELF and pedagogy and future trends.
    This handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of English as a lingua franca and world/global Englishes more broadly, within English language, applied linguistics, and education.

    Introduction to the volume

    Part One: Conceptualising and positioning ELF

    1. Conceptualising ELF - Anna Mauranen
    2. English as a lingua franca and intercultural communication - Will Baker
    3. Communities of practice and English as a lingua franca - Susanne Ehrenreich
    4. Complexity and ELF - Diane Larsen-Freeman
    5. English language teaching: pedagogic reconnection with the social dimension - Constant Leung and Jo Lewkowicz
    6. Cognitive perspectives on English as a lingua franca - Christopher Hall
    7. Standard English and the dynamics of ELF variation - Barbara Seidlhofer
    8. Historical perspectives on ELF - H. G. Widdowson

    Part Two: Regional spread of ELF

    1. ELF and the EU/wider Europe - Tamah Sherman
    2. English as a lingua franca in the Gulf Cooperation Council states - Nuha Alharbi
    3. The development of English as a lingua franca in ASEAN - Andy Kirkpatrick
    4. Chinese English as a lingua franca: an ideological inquiry - Ying Wang
    5. The status of ELF in Japan - James D'Angelo
    6. ELF in Brazil: recent developments and further directions - Telma Gimenez, Michele Salles El Kadri and Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo
    7.  Is English the lingua franca of South Africa? - Christa van der Walt and Rinelle Evans

    Part Three: ELF characteristics and processes

    1. Analysing ELF variability - Ruth Osimk-Teasdale
    2. The pragmatics of ELF - Alessia Cogo and Juliane House
    3. Pronunciation and miscommunication in ELF interactions: an analysis of initial clusters - Ishamina Althirah Gardiner and David Deterding
    4. Creativity, idioms and metaphorical language in ELF - Marie-Luise Pitzl
    5. Grammar in ELF - Elina Ranta
    6. Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English as a lingua franca interactions: revisiting linguistic variety - Beyza Björkman
    7. Language norms in ELF - Niina Hynninen and Anna Solin
    8. Uncooperative lingua franca encounters - Christopher Jenks

    Part Four: Contemporary domains and functions

    1. Translingual practice and ELF - Suresh Canagarajah and Daisuke Kimura
    2. ELF in the domain of business - BELF: what does the B stand for? - Anne Kankaanranta and Leena Louhiala-Salminen
    3. ELF in social contexts - Kaisa S. Pietikäinen
    4. Humour in ELF interaction: a powerful, multifunctional resource in relational practice - Patricia Pullin
    5. ELF in electronically mediated intercultural communication - Chittima Sangiamchit
    6. ELF and multilingualism - Alessia Cogo
    7. ELF and translation/interpreting - Michaela Albl-Mikasa

    Part Five: ELF in Academia

    1. Beyond monolingualism in higher education: a language policy account - Ute Smit
    2. EMI in higher education: an ELF perspective - Kumiko Murata and Masakazu Iino
    3. Written academic English as a lingua franca - Bruce Horner
    4. Transforming higher education and literacy policies: the contribution of ELF - Ursula Wingate

    Part Six: ELF and Pedagogy

    1. ELF and teacher education - Martin Dewey and Laura Patsko
    2. ELF-aware teaching, learning and teacher development - Nicos Sifakis and Yasemin Bayyurt
    3. ELF and ELT teaching materials - Nicola Galloway
    4. ELF and content and language integrated learning - Julia Hüttner
    5. ELT and ELF in the East Asian contexts - Ayako Suzuki, Haibo Liu and Melissa H. Yu
    6. Language as system and language as dialogic creativity: the difficulties of teaching English as a lingua franca in the classroom - Sue Wright and Lin Zheng
    7. English Language teachers and ELF - Enric Llurda

    Part Seven: ELF into the future: trends, debates, predictions

    1. English as a lingua franca: changing 'attitudes' - Robert Baird and Mariko Baird
    2. ELF in migration - Maria Grazia Guido
    3. Global languages and lingua franca communication - Sonia Morán Panero
    4. Language assessment: the challenge of ELF - Luke Harding and Tim McNamara
    5. ELF and critical language testing - Elana Shohamy
    6. The future of English as a lingua franca? - Jennifer Jenkins

    Index

    Biography

    Jennifer Jenkins holds the Chair of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton where she is also founding director of the Centre for Global Englishes.

    Will Baker is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Englishes and convenor of MA Global Englishes, University of Southampton.

    Martin Dewey is Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, where he is Programme Director for the MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT.

    "The chapters in this handbook constitute a valuable resource for students developing an interest in ELF, and for academic researchers, who will also find the suggested readings and ample bibliographic references a useful foundation for further investigations. The rapid pace of change in ELF research, still at an elementary stage in some areas, gives one reason to believe that a second edition of this handbook will be necessary in due course." -- Gibson Ferguson, University of Sheffield