Publications

Publication details [#53871]

Nikula, Tarja and Tiina Virkkula. 2010. Identity construction in ELF contexts: a case study of Finnish engineering students working in Germany. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (2) : 251–273.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | identity negotiation | language use | lingua franca | student

Language as a subject

English | Finnish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines connections between identity construction and language use in English as a lingua franca contexts, as revealed by the through interviews obtained stories of Finnish engineering students' using English, both before and after a working period in Germany.