Tag Archives: ELF

CGE Seminar Wednesday 9th November 2016: Dr Nicola Galloway

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes seminar. When: Wednesday 9th November, 5-6.30pm Where: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre C Who: Dr Nicola Galloway, University of Edinburgh Research to classroom practice: Global Englishes and ELT textbooks ā€œthe prevailing orientation inā€¦..ELT materials still remains undoubtedly towards ENLā€ (Jenkins, 2012: 487). Theoretical and empirical work […]

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Slides available from Prof Anna Mauranen’s seminar on 24th February

“How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca?” by Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki, Feb 24th, 2016 As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as a Lingua Franca is highly successful despite manifesting certain non-standard features, much along the lines of dialects and other non-standard varieties. […]

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Diamond Jubilee Project update

Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English, spent the week of 22nd February in Modern Languages working with Jenny Jenkins on the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship project, ā€˜Linguistic diversity on the international campusā€™, that they are co-directing. As well as making progress on the overall project, including catching up with the […]

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CGE Seminar Wed 24th February 2016: Prof Anna Mauranen

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 24th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as […]

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CGE Seminar Wed 2nd December 2015: Prof Jennifer Jenkins

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 2nd December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton International English-language university entry tests: are they fit for purpose? My talk will begin by exploring some empirical data in which international students discuss […]

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CGE seminar Wed 14th October: Dr Ying Wang

When: Wed 14th October, 5-7pm Where: Avenue Campus, 65/LTC Who: Dr Ying Wang, University of Southampton Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China A wealth of research into the global phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has motivated the call for the development of ELF awareness in language pedagogies. […]

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