Introducing English as a Lingua Franca: an Online Tutorial

Table of Contents

1. What is English as a Lingua Franca?
2. The tutorial: who it's for and what it aims to do
3. The tutorial: how it works
4. Analysing talk (the slightly theoretical bit)
5. Recording and transcribing: why record, why transcribe, what to transcribe
6. Notation
7. Three examples of classroom talk with accompanying transcripts
8. The activity - section one: form a group
9. The activity - section two: select your recording equipment
10. The activity - section three: record your discussion
11. The activity - section four: transcription and analysis
12. The activity - section five: discuss your transcript
13. Photos of the project team
14. References
15. Further reading
16. Acknowledgements
17. How to print and cite this resource
18. Creative Commons Licence

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Stavros Anetopoulos, Oliver Hambling-Jones, Ilias Michailidis and Jialing Yuan for their essential input to this project, which included: data collection, data analysis, writing sections of the text, talking in front of video cameras without any notice, preparing and giving group presentations, making design suggestions and eating sandwiches.

Thank you to Chris Hall, Jan Hardman, Andrew Merrison and Robert Morris for help with the data analysis and for interesting conversations about English as a Lingua Franca.

Thank you to Mark Dransfield for help with the technology.

Thank you to Karen Llewellyn and Pam Rule for project management and administration support.

Thank you to York St John University Enquiry-based Learning, Higher Education Academy LLAS and Birmingham City University IPREN for providing the funding for the project.

If you have any comments on or suggestions for this tutorial, please email Rachel Wicaksono: r.wicaksono@yorksj.ac.uk