{"product_id":"english-as-a-lingua-franca-a-new-teaching-paradigm-9783656531227","title":"English as a lingua franca. A new teaching paradigm?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ann Christine\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Study \u0026amp; Teaching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Variety in English, language: English, abstract: \"If you stay in the mind-set of 15th-century Europe, the future of Latin is extremely bright,\" predicts Nicholas Ostler, the author of a language history called \"Empires of the Word\" who wrote a history of Latin. \"If you stay in the mind-set of the 20th-century world, the future of English is extremely bright.\" Indeed, the history and the world-wide distribution of the English language has been a most remarkable and unparalleled one. The language has developed into a global language which \"[...] is dominant in a way that no language has ever been before.\" Yet what makes English so important is its use as a lingua franca. Today, English is spoken by three times as many non-native speakers as native speakers. This phenomenon raises the question whether a standard should be established and how it should be taught at school. English as a lingua franca - a new teaching paradigm? This question will be discussed in this term paper. I will begin with a short presentation about the distribution of English and its development into a global language. Kachru's famous three-circle model describing the diversity of English speakers around the world will be examined with a critical eye. The chapter goes on by trying to define the term lingua franca. In chapter 3 the following current research projects will be presented: Lingua Franca Core (LFC) by Jennifer Jenkins, Basic Global English (BGE) by Joachim Grezga and Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) developed by Barbara Seidlhofer. Chapter 3 deals with the question of teaching English as a lingua franca (ELF). \"English has become the second language of everybody. [...] It's gotten to the point where almost in any part of the world to be educated means to know English\" says Mark Wars\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grin Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45568589725847,"sku":"9783656531227","price":2140.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783656531227.webp?v=1767465693","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/english-as-a-lingua-franca-a-new-teaching-paradigm-9783656531227","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}