Where are we? Where are we going? The past, present, and future of English(es) and ELF research
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
14th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
This panel is intended to provide a stimulating way into the conference as we get together on-site after a long pandemic and virtual-only phase. Taking the title of this session, provided by the ELF14 organizers, as our brief, we will aim to address these large-scale questions in a way that offers for both newcomers to ELF research and ELF veterans some stock-taking of the state of the art in ELF study and perspectives on future prospects.
We will pass under brief review some staging posts of development in the 25-odd year history of ELF study and home in on some aspects of its research that seem particularly significant from our various vantage points.
In the process, we will provide an overview of empirical work on spoken ELF interactions that has been carried out over the past two decades. In doing so, particular emphasis will be put on group characteristics of ELF interactions that might in the future help us gain a more detailed understanding of how ELF use develops situationally across different domains and settings.
We shall also consider the crucial issue of the applied linguistic relevance of ELF research to ?real-world? problems brought about by globalization and its implications for language education, particularly the pedagogy of ELT.
We hope that this short tour d?horizon will stimulate Vorfreude in anticipation of the great variety of ELF14 presentations and discussions to come.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Englischer Vortragstitel:
Where are we? Where are we going? The past, present, and future of English(es) and ELF research
Vortragstyp:
Hauptvortrag / Eingeladener Vortrag auf einer Tagung
Forschungs-