Search results for "Lingua Franca"

ELF in the classroom : Finnish upper secondary school students' attitudes towards ELF

2014

Englannin kielen asema maailmalla on muuttunut merkittävästi viime vuosikymmenten aikana ja se on saavuttanut vahvan aseman kansainvälisenä kielenä. Se toimii myös yhä enenevissä määrin maailmanlaajuisena lingua francana ei-äidinkielisten englannin kielen puhujien välisessä kommunikaatiossa. Englannin kielen roolin muuttumisen myötä, myös englannin kielen opetukseen on vaadittu muutoksia. On ehdotettu, että nykyisen englannin standardi varieteetteja, mm. amerikanenglanti ja brittienglanti, painottavan mallin sijaan, englannin opetuksen tulisi mukailla enemmän lingua franca -englanti (ELF) mallia. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää lukiolaisten asenteita ELF:iä ja sen opettamista ko…

English as a lingua franca – a native-culture-free code? Language of communication vs. language of identification

2011

English has become the dominant means of international communication. Its non-native speakers now far outnumber the conventional native speakers in the UK, the USA, Canada etc. Against this background, a number of authors have recently stressed the functions for which foreign languages are learned. They make a distinction between a ‘language of communication’ and a ‘language of identification’. The terms, which were coined by the German applied linguist Werner Hüllen (1992), have recently been popularised in the context of English as a lingua franca. English, it is said, can be used as a language of communication without necessarily being a language of identification. As it is used for prac…

What Counts as ‘Good’ Academic Writing? The Interplay of Writing Norms in International Higher Education

2021

English medium instruction (EMI) programmes have become common contexts of English use for academic purposes worldwide. They tend to combine students and teachers with very varied linguistic, national and academic backgrounds who use English as a lingua franca rather than the official language of the institution. In this chapter, I discuss literature on the interplay of different kinds of norms for academic writing relevant to EMI contexts (e.g. linguistic, cultural, disciplinary), whilst providing examples from an ethnographically oriented study of academic literacy on an international master’s programme in Finland (reported on previously e.g. in McCambridge, Norms and ideologies of academ…

The Short and Intense Post-Nationalist Period in Finnish Higher Education

2020

This chapter presents the transition from a nationalist to post-nationalist period since the 1980s as the increasing systematic mobility and European cooperation as well as the fall of the Soviet Union turned Finnish higher education towards Western cooperation. The new internationalization strategies first aimed at founding mobility programmes for higher education and then particularly English medium study programmes. Post-national nation state emerges in the analysis mainly as an actor on the global economy. The discourses of competition and success in the global markets are interwoven with discourses of protection of the nation state. The use of English as an ostensibly self-evident and …

Andrés Febrés, linguista esule in Sardegna (1783 ca – 1790)

2021

Riassunto: L’arrivo in Sardegna dell’esule gesuita Andres Febres (Manresa, 1732 - Cagliari, 1790), in fuga da agenti dello Stato della Chiesa e dell’ambasciata spagnola a Roma, segna la ripresa di interessi linguistici gia espressi con l’Arte de la lengua general del reyno de Chile (Lima, 1765). Privo di mezzi materiali, operando da clandestino con il falso nome di Bonifacio d’Olmi, e in parallelo a un’attivita di stampa illegale, concepisce un progetto di pianificazione della lingua sarda, con una grammatica delle varianti del sardo e almeno un’opera in versi su cui sperimentare le sue innovazioni ortografiche, lessicali e morfologiche. Vorremmo ripercorrere il profilo di quell’esperimento…

Enfermedad de Riga-Fede

2018

Bari e gli studi catalani

2020

Riassunto: Il contributo ricostruisce la tradizione degli studi catalani che l’Universita di Bari, e segnatamente la cattedra di Filologia Romanza coperta da Giuseppe Edoardo Sansone, ha visto nascere tra fine anni ‘50 e inizi anni ’60, e poi fiorire nei decenni successivi. Aprendo alla catalanistica le porte del mondo accademico molto precocemente, si creava a Bari non solo uno spazio accademico di ricerca, ma anche un luogo di promozione e di risonanza nazionale e internazionale per la catalanistica. Si ricostruiscono, a grandi tratti, i principali filoni di ricerca che hanno visto l’impegno del gruppo barese primigenio, ricordando i contributi fondamentali dei singoli componenti e le pri…

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, N 6

2016

International students' perceptions on their adaptation to Indonesia and their intercultural relationship development : special focus on differences …

2015

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, miten kansainväliset opiskelijat kuvaavat sopeutumistaan Indonesiaan. Sopeutumista tarkastellaan erityisesti niiden ihmissuhteiden valossa, joita opiskelijat loivat Indonesiassa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on lisäksi selvittää opiskelijoiden näkemyksiä siitä, miten kulttuuriset viestintätyylien erot sekä Englanti lingua franca -kielenä vaikuttivat ihmissuhteiden kehittymiseen. Tutkimusote on laadullinen. Tutkimukseen osallistujat valittiin yhdistämällä lumipalloja mukavuusotantatapoja. Tutkimusjoukoksi valikoitui 11 opiskelijaa, joista 10 osallistui AIESEC-järjestön työharjoitteluohjelmaan, kun taas yksi tutkimukseen osallistujista oli AFS-ohjelman oppilas…

Language Environment in University: Accessibility, Quality, Sustainability

2014

LU Valodu centra Starptautiskās konferences rakstu krājums