English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education

Download or read book English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education written by Ute Smit and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With English-medium higher education burgeoning in Europe and elsewhere outside the English-speaking world, this book is the first to offer an ethnographically-embedded analysis of such classroom discourse by taking cognizance of English functioning as a lingua franca (ELF) in international student groups. By virtue of investigating one such educational programme in its entirety, the study also enlarges the present knowledge on ELF discourse as it offers novel insights into the interactional dynamics that shape and develop an educational community of practice.