Publications

Publication details [#53868]

Ranta, Elina. 2010. English in the real world vs. English at school: Finnish English teachers' and students' views. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (2) : 156–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

high school | L2-acquisition | language use | lingua franca | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study shows that Finnish secondary students and teachers of English are well aware of the lingua franca role played by English in the ‘real world’ and generally welcome this diversity. Standard models and goals though appear to surround ‘school English’.