Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca

Poppi, Franca

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“…Consequently, English (as a Lingua Franca) is the communicative medium of choice for speakers of many different languages (Seidlhofer, 2011), and it is currently being used on the Internet as a contact language. In this sense, Poppi (2012) posits that the classical distinction between native speakers of English and non-natives should be overcome; instead, we should refer to internationally competent and efficient interactants.…”

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“…Communication technologies have improved at lightning speed and today's new contexts of work have led to virtual exchanges of information on a daily basis in which English is the Lingua Franca used (Poppi, 2012). Virtual communicative environments in workplace interactions have led to a change of paradigm in interpersonal communication in business contexts both in small companies and large organizations (Darics, 2015).…”

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Communicative language in the virtual world

Fleta¹

2017

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Emerging communication practices in digitally mediated professional settings have changed the paradigm of current workforce requirements. This paper presents the results of a survey on the way people communicate virtually in the workplace and the specific needs that have been detected concerning virtual communication practices. The survey itself was carried out within the context of CoMoViWo, a European Erasmus Project which involves the participation of five European countries. Specifically, the current study carries out a contrastive analysis of the results of the needs analysis of Spanish and Finnish users of digital communication tools. The data obtained from the study highlights the differences found with regard to the communicative strategies preferred by the virtual workers of both countries. Although they all need to communicate formally on most online tools, Spanish workers prefer more informal registers in emails and social networking than Finnish virtual workers. Also, Spanish speakers manifest a greater need than the Finnish interviewees for improving strategies involving greetings, virtual presentations and negotiating. On the other hand, Finnish speakers perceive they only need to develop strategies in managing and/or hosting virtual group interactions. The study has implications, and should contribute to the development of learning modules to train future employees to communicate successfully in an increasingly globalized world that is engaged daily in virtual communication.

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Section: Lingua Francamentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Communicative language in the virtual world

Fleta¹

2017

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“…At the start of a book entitled Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca, Franca Poppi [3] quotes Seidlhofer"s [4] common definition of ELF, as Any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice, and often the only option Yet, surprisingly, Poppi subtitles her book, How written communication is changing under the influence of electronic media and new contexts of use. The significance is in the paradox of Poppi projecting her investigation into current and future trends of language use and relevant literacies in digital fields, but relies on a conventional ELF definition referring to English users as "speakers".…”

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“…A similar term, "Net Generation", is mentioned in a recent UNESCO-sponsored document about new literacies [16]. Poppi [3] mentions new ways of reading and writing plus navigating hypertext online as part of these new literacies, which tend to blend traditional print literacies and which may also be used simultaneously. Ironically, if younger people (learners) are the digital natives, older people (teachers) may well be digital non-natives.…”

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“…To shift focus in this direction means to shift focus away from traditional or orthodox models of English taught, such as from general or generic English to more localised and more specific modes, practices and contexts. There is already a significant effort directed this way in face-to-face, print and also electronic media: in any Content-based English (often for higher proficiency levels anyway) and also English for Specific Purposes (ESP), These include things like business English [3] and other work or vocational English programs. They commonly and necessarily incorporate de facto literacy components.…”

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Multi-Competence, ELF, Learning and Literacy: A Reconsideration

Doyle¹

2015

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I. INTRODUCTION Vivian Cook, a British applied linguist proposed his multi-competence model in the early 1990s developed from Universal Grammar theories. Multi competence relates to competence in two or more languages, which traditionally are understood as first and second or other languages (L1, L2, OL). In this paper these a priori distinctions are not presumed. Rather connections are drawn among people"s multi-competence in more than one language. Following on, Literacy which reflects considerable elements of language use, ELF (English as a lingua franca) and also relevant categorizations of Learning are deduced and drawn. The purpose is to establish coherent ground for a model for language education that is appropriate for meeting local modern and cultural needs. II. MULTI-COMPETENCE The Multi-Competence model has evolved since its early inspiration from Universal Grammar: The term 'multi-competence' was originally defined as 'the compound state of a mind with two grammars'; in the context of that paper, "grammar" was used in the Chomskyan sense of the total knowledge of language in the mind (the I-language) leading some people to infer wrongly that multi-competence

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