Communicative practices in English as a lingua franca interactions: some examples from Asian university students in London
| Autor: | Bill Batziakas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Communicative competence Linguistics and Language Translanguaging Superdiversity Applied linguistics 06 humanities and the arts Communicative language teaching 060202 literary studies Lingua franca Language and Linguistics Linguistics English as a lingua franca 0602 languages and literature Situated Pedagogy Psychology computer computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Asian Englishes. 19:44-56 |
| ISSN: | 2331-2548 1348-8678 |
| Popis: | The advent of the concept of communicative competence in applied linguistics and English Language Teaching constituted a break from previous accounts of language, as it advocated a more social view of language use. However, it was subsequently reified narrowly by the ensuing pedagogical models of communicative competence. This and the fact that English gradually became the default lingua franca in ethnolinguistically diverse contexts point to the need to reinvestigate how English is nowadays used. These observations are illustrated here with examples from naturally occurring spoken interactions of some Asian university students in London. What is shown is that the students were making use of all their linguistic resources, and they were thus achieving various communicative objectives. Such linguistic practices highlight the situated and contingent nature of language-mediated meaning-making, and resonate with the analytic sensibilities and sensitivities of the body of research on English as a lingu... |
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