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The 11th International Conference

• f English as a lingua franca

Daisuke Kimura ALESS/A Program Center for Global Communication Strategies Presented at TIME TO TALK session October 25, 2018

Outline

• Introduction to English as a lingua franca (ELF)
• Overview of the conference
• My work
• Highlights of the conference
• Applications

What is ELF?

• “any use of English among speakers of different first languages for

whom English is the communicative medium of choice, and often the

• nly option” (Seidlhofer 2011: 7)
• “the use of English in a lingua franca language scenario” (Mortensen

2013: 36)

• ELF is NOT a specific variety of English (cf. World Englishes)

ELF, Migration and Multilingualism

My presentations

• 1. English as a lingua franca, multilingualism, and

social networks in a study abroad context: Narrative case studies of Japanese students in Thailand

• 2. ELF and additional language learning: Analysis
• f a Thai tutoring session

Highlights of the conference

• Plenary talk by Lourdes Ortega
• Pedagogical ideas

Plenary talk by Lourdes Ortega

Multilingualism and ELF: A (Mostly SLA-Informed) Outsider perspective

• ELF’s contributions to applied linguistics
• Combatting ‘native-speakerism’ and “monolingual bias”
• No territorial claims
• No nativizing claims
• Full linguistic legitimacy to nonnative speakers
• ELF’s shortcomings
• ELF research has mostly focused on affluent, educated and elite populations
• Locale, race, class (positioned by these factors, multilinguals often experience

discrimination and marginalization)

ELF-aware teaching

“a continuous process of critical reflection, design, implementation, and evaluation of instructional activities that reflect and localize one’s interpretation of the ELF construct” (Sifakis & Bayyurt 2017: 459). “the purpose of teaching becomes the development of a capability for effective use [of English] which involves the process of exploiting whatever linguistic resources are available, no matter how formally 'defective'" (Seidlhofer 2011: 12).

Considerations for ELF-aware teaching

• ELF is about diversity and fluidity, not about uniformity and fixity
• We must cultivate learners’ willingness and capability to continue

learning life-long and life-wide

• Aligning language ideologies of learners with the reality of the world is a

pressing issue (Kimura forthcoming; Konakahara, Murata, and Iino 2017)

• Professional expertise overrides language background (Hynninen 2016)
• Decoupling language expertise from native speaker status

Applications

Awareness raising through discussions

Graduate STEM Enrollment in the US

Some more ideas

• Matched guise technique as a conversation starter
• https://www.dialectsarchive.com/
• Close analysis of actual language use
• Task-based activities wherein language is not the sole focus
• Using faculty publications as teaching materials
• Class visits among the faculty

Thank you for listening!

Daisuke Kimura dkimura@aless.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Please share your ideas about how to teach in “ELF-aware” ways! Also, come to the symposium on January 30, 2018! (Co-hosted by CGCS, GFD, and The Japan Association of National Universities)