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ELF and Applied Linguistics Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives
With help from a global cast of scholars, Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics, which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF).
This edited volume probes the dichotomy between the current focus of applied linguistic research and a drastically changed English use in a globalised world. This division is approached from diverse perspectives and with the overarching understanding of ELF as an indispensable area of applied linguistics research. The volume includes theoretical backgrounds to English as a lingua franca, the nature of ELF interactions, language policy and practice from an ELF perspective, and the relationship between multilingualism and ELF.
A resourceful book not only to ELF researchers but also applied linguists in general, as well as policy makers, administrators, practicing teachers, and university students from diverse linguacultural backgrounds.
1. Reconsidering applied linguistics research from ELF perspectives: introduction
Kumiko Murata
Part I: ELF research and communication: diverse perspectives
2. Conceptualising ELF and Applied Linguistics
Henry Widdowson and Barbara Seidlhofer
3. Translanguaging and intercultural communication: rethinking ‘cultural thought patterns’
Li Wei
Part II ELF and applied linguistics research: regional perspectives
4. The Global South has been speaking: ELF and higher education
Clarissa Menezes Jordão
5. English as a lingua franca in ASEAN and implications for applied linguistics research
Azirah Hashim
6. ELT in South Korea from the perspectives of ELF and WE
Joo-Kyung Park and Kiwan Sung
7. Applied Linguistics in Japan from BELF perspectives
Hajime Terauchi, Sayako Maswana and Hisashi Naito
8. Three models of ELF instruction: from a pedagogical perspective
Qiufang Wen
Part III ELF and perspectives on multilingual communication and education
9. Rethinking English as a lingua franca from decolonial perspectives
Yumi Matsumoto and Ryuko Kubota
10. Going beyond English-only medium instruction: challenges of multilingual education as an LPP mechanism
Masakazu Iino
11. Why aviation English is not ELF
Dominique Estival and Alastair Pennycook
Part IV ELF and assessment – challenging the assumed paradigm?
12. A challenge for language testing: the assessment of English as a lingua franca
Tim McNamara
13. Writtenness in assessed English: implicit assumptions of a smooth read
Joan Turner
Biography
Kumiko Murata is Professor Emeritus of English and Applied Linguistics at the School of Education and the Graduate School of Education, Waseda University. Her research interests include ELF, conversation and discourse analyses, pragmatics, intercultural communication, and language teaching. Her recent edited books include Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts: Conceptualization, Research and Pedagogic Implications (2016, Routledge), English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective: Exploring the Higher Education Context (2019, Routledge), and ELF Research Methods and Approaches to Data and Analyses: Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings (2021, Routledge).
