Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe by Walter de Gruyter

Author:Walter de Gruyter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

3 ELF and language choice in academia (research and higher education) and in computer-­mediated communication (CMC)

Although English is indisputably the pre-eminent language of scholarly exchange and academic communication (Mauranen, Pérez-Llantada and Swales 2010), the use of ELF needs to be discussed in the context of multilingualism, since, as researchers claim, English is a flexible resource on which language users draw as part of their multilingual repertoire (Hülmbauer, Böhringer and Seidlhofer 2008; Leppänen et al. 2009).

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