From Efl To Elf: Possibilities And Restrictions

Résumé: During my university course, I had had the opportunity to attend some conferences presented by native English linguists. I experienced the difficulty, rather the hopelessness for a non-native speaker to successfully achieve the idealized Standard English pronunciation. I understood that the wish, to which I have aspired for a long time, was very remote from its realization. I, honestly, felt myself excluded from native-like speakers‟ crowd. At this right moment of reflection, my background knowledge about language acquisition went up to the surface of my thoughts; to what extent is language learning out of reach of language acquisition. Anyway, optimistically, I found my scope in English as a Lingua Franca. Effectively, within English as a Lingua Franca, I am allowed to range my own construction of English learning as “my English”. In fact, this paper discusses this legitimacy of multiple English varieties and its acceptance under the heading of English as a lingua franca. This discussion deals with native and non-native speaker models and how the issue of English ownership is still being questionable. Next, the positive and negative aspects of teaching English as a Lingua Franca as opposed to teaching English as a Foreign Language are exposed in order to entail the possible adequate implications for English as Lingua Franca pedagogy.

Publié dans la revue: دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية