{"id":186,"date":"2010-05-27T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-05-27T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:06:00","slug":"186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"English as a lingua franca conference 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am attaching here the ppt<\/a> for the paper which Nicos Sifakis gave last week – on behalf of the\u00a0research team also including Vally Lytra and myself –\u00a0at the ELF (English as a lingua franca) conference in Vienna. I will also add his reflections on how it went.<\/p>\n

Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (2010). English as a lingua franca in an increasingly post-EFL era: The case of English in the Greek state education curriculum. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on English as a Lingua Franca, hosted by the University of Vienna, 22nd \u2013 25th May 2010, Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n

Nicos writes (to Richard and Vally):<\/p>\n

Back from Vienna. The presentation went really fine. It took place on the final day of the conference (Tue), in the policy strand of the conference, with Barbara Seidlhofer chairing. There were people from Italy and Spain (Enric Llurda) in the audience. After the presentation, the colleagues from Italy wanted to find out more about our paper, I’ll send them the slides. They want to create materials for their EFL classes there that would integrate an ELF perspective. Perhaps that could spawn a brand new joint project.<\/p>\n

I am attaching the final version of the slides for your files – I thought, after talking to some people about the topic of our talk (before the actual presentation) that some additional clarifying of how EIL and MATE link to ELF was necessary. I therefore added a couple more slides to that end. I also coloured the different terms and the various evaluations of some of the examples, as you’ll see. This apparently helped, as people could more easily (and quickly) link colours with notions. They even used colours to refer to specific examples. It turned out to be helpful, because the 20 minutes of the actual talk went by very fast!<\/p>\n

The term MATE was very well received. People understood it (in fact, they said so themselves), which was very important, I thought, especially for a conference like this where terminology is so fluid and abundant (people always coming up with new terms, e.g. “speakers of other langs teaching English”, or SOLTE, instead of TESOL, etc). It goes without saying that, as with the previous ELF conferences, understanding terminology was seen as crucially important. There were many people (some plenary speakers even, especially the more “theoretical” linguists, like Schneider and even applied linguists like Guy Cook) who were openly against ELF, albeit not against ELF research. That’s why it seemed to me important to emphasise in our paper that we were more interested in ELF as function (and in the classroom context at that), with the terms EIL and MATE tied in to international and intercultural functions and uses of NNS discourse, rather than as a type of NNS variety.<\/p>\n

There are many more things to add of course, about the conference, and so little time! Next year’s ELF takes place in Hong Kong and at the end of the conference the organisers announced the launching of the International Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, with Jenkins, Seidlhofer and Mauranen as editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am attaching here the ppt for the paper which Nicos Sifakis gave last week – on behalf of the\u00a0research team also including Vally Lytra and myself –\u00a0at the ELF (English as a lingua franca) conference in Vienna. I will also add his reflections on how it went. Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (2010). English as a lingua […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[89,90,96,171],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s865eh-186","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}