Understand what English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is, explore the benefits of an ELF approach, and learn how to plan, teach, and assess it. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio CD explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students.
It covers techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation, including planning and assessment and the influence of learners' first language pronunciation. The accompanying audio CD features dialogues between ELF speakers from fifteen different first language backgrounds. This pack includes: Book with Audio CD.
1. EnglishL changing roles, changing goals
2. The Lingua Franca Core
3. Adopting ab EIF approach
4. Techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation
5. ELF and the learner's first-language pronunciation
6. ELF pronunciation: Planning and assessment