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ELF and Applied Linguistics: Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

ELF and Applied Linguistics Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives

Edited By Kumiko Murata Copyright 2024
242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

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).

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