Swan (2017) argues that ELF is nothing new, that ELF is not necessarily an expression of ownership or personal expression, and that targetlikeness may be a more appropriate focus when concerning pedagogy.
This article explores discrepancies between the topics included in ELT textbooks and the actual topics of conversation in English learners’ encounters with peers.
This article discusses research related to three types of interventions that could help English speakers build more successful international communications.
This article introduces LX as a way to move away from the native/non-native speaker or L1/L2 dichotomy towards a more accurate representation of multi-competent language users.
Tribble uses corpus data to argue that the native/non-native speaker dichotomy (and English as a Linga Franca assumptions) does not play a role in academic writing.