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English as a Lingua Franca & Native Speakerism
Part 1 - 2021
Why an ELF approach accelerates progress
01
What language learners want
02
What is English as a Lingua Franca?
03
Native Speakerism
Quiz:What percentage of conversations every day are conducted by non-native speakers?
90% !!!
90%!
What Students Want
What language do your students use to describe their goals?
What our students say
I want...
to sound like a native
to be fluent
advanced vocabulary
advanced grammar
to sound like I do in my 1st language
What do our students really need?
They need to...
sound like themselves
feel confident
remember words they know
feel adequate
be respected
Jennifer Jenkins andEnglish as a Lingua Franca
It is the use of the English language as a global means of inter-community communication ...any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option
What is English as a Lingua Franca? ?
...a language per se, it is a toolWe don't teach ELF, it is a lense
What ELF is not....
Questions:How is ELF different from ESL, EFL, ESP, EAP, ESOL and more? What changes do we need to make to our curriculum in order to teach in/for an ELF context?
According to ELF experts:
- Pronunciation and rhythm patterns
- Varying use of grammar:
- correct/incorrect
- standard/non-standard/different
- Idioms
- Phrasal Verbs
And this has a huge impact on our students
Native Speakerism
The idea that native speakers are only from so-called western countries: USA, UK, Australia, NZ, South Africa.
Who does English belong to?
Scottish
In addition, multiple (correct) varieties of English have developed
Nigerian
Malaysian
Scottish
Philipino
And many many more...
Indian
Variety of Englishes
According to Adrian Halliday:
Native-speakerism is a pervasive ideology within ELT, characterized by the belief that ‘native-speaker’ teachers represent a ‘Western culture’ from which spring the ideals both of the English language and of English language teaching methodology (Holliday 2005).
But it's more than that...
Speaking a language is not a qualification and does not measure or guarantee your ability to teach well
According to Adrian Halliday:
Native-speakerism is a neo-racist ideology that has wide-ranging impact on how teachers are perceived by each other and by their students. By labelling teachers as separate 'native speakers' and 'non-native speakers', it falsely positions them as culturally superior and inferior with separate roles and attributes.
And even more...
What impact does this have on learners of English, on multilingual English users?
- Focus on intelligibility/clarity
- Focus on the pronunciation features that lead to intelligibility (LFC)
- Use a wide variety of non-native speaker accents - they outnumber 6-1
- Focus on interactions between non-native speakers (authentic and realistic model of how English is used)
- Focus on intercultural communicative skills (instead of focusing on JUST British/American cultural things)
- Use non-native speakers as valid models (listening exercises etc)
- Awareness-raising of ELF
Seven principles of ELF
I welcome your questions...
Deepika Vasudevan Qualified Bilingual English teacher from India