PLURELF: A Project Implementing Plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca in English Language Teaching at University
This paper presents a study on the implementation of a Business English university course aimed at promoting plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca (PLURELF). The course is inspired by research on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the works on language diversity and plurilingual uses, suc...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/467603 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17136 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/467603 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Anglès -- Ensenyament universitari Multilingüisme |
| Resumo: | This paper presents a study on the implementation of a Business English university course aimed at promoting plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca (PLURELF). The course is inspired by research on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the works on language diversity and plurilingual uses, such as those published by Creese, and Blackledge (2010; 2014), May (2013), and Pennycook, and Otsuji (2015), and by the literature claiming the need to incorporate a plurilingual or translanguaging perspective in education (e.g. Cenoz and Gorter 2013; 2015; García 2009; García and Li 2014; Kramsch 2012; Levine 2011). The PLURELF project relies on the hypothesis that the adoption of a plurilingual approach in English language teaching produces more positive results with regard to language development, intercultural awareness, and learners’ attitudes than traditional monolingual approaches, thus challenging the idea, deeply rooted in the theory and practice of ELT, that a monolingual native-based perspective is needed in order to effectively teach the language. This paper looks at the goals and methodology of the project and provides some of its key results. |
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