Volume 61
![A Door to the World or to Just a Handful of Anglo Cultures? English as a Lingua Franca and Students’ Orientations toward English A Door to the World or to Just a Handful of Anglo Cultures? English as a Lingua Franca and Students’ Orientations toward English](../wp-content/themes/wp-clearV6.0/images/def-thumb.jpg)
A Door to the World or to Just a Handful of Anglo Cultures? English as a Lingua Franca and Students’ Orientations toward English
In applied linguistics circles, one of the most polarizing issues related to the global spread of English has been the English as a lingua franca (ELF) research paradigm, which focuses on English use for communication among speakers who did not learn English as a ‘native’ language (ENL).