Graddol and Crystal. Plenary session by David Graddol. Updated Crystal English144. ELF in my car! The lingua franca discussion rumbles on. I was driving back from orchestra rehearsal on Monday – well no, driving back from the pub which we go to after orchestra rehearsal – when the radio station I listen to all the time, BBC Radio 4, started broadcasting a programme called ‘Word of Mouth’.
(In parenthesis: Radio 4 is a national radio station which broadcasts news, drama, comedy, factual programming, magazine programmes etc) Anyway, the announcer told us that the programme would be about ELF (English as a Lingua Franca - I think you may be able to listen from outside the UK) and suddenly I found myself listening, on national radio, to people I know such as Jennifer Jenkins, Andy Kirkpatrick, Val Hennessy from IH (International House) Bristol, Michael Swan etc. Of course anyone in the UK is used to David Crystal popping up on the radio , but this was more surprising! Gateway3. English will fragment into 'global dialects' World Englishes: An Investigation of International Students' Goals and Experiences.
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