Publications

Publication details [#51414]

Firth, Alan. 2009. Doing not being a foreign language learner: English as a lingua franca in the workplace and (some) implications for SLA. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 47 (1) : 127–156.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language proficiency | lingua franca | second language acquisition | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper focuses on the use of English as a lingua franca in an international workplace setting, where parties implicitly calibrate their own linguistic and interactional behaviour according to the assessed language proficiency of their co-participants, thus learning a second or foreign language.