Rachel Wicaksono

• MA (Oxon), MA TESOL, EdD, RSA/UCLES CTEFLA, RSA/UCLES DTEFLA, FHEA
• Head of Department at York St John University

This chapter explores ideas about ‘(non-)native’ speakers of English, with particular reference to the professional context of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The use of ‘(non-)native’ speaker to describe a person’s use of English remains common in a variety of domains, despite much scholarly and professional argument again...

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Ontologies of English - edited by Christopher J. Hall

This study presents a conceptual framework for exploring teachers' ontologies of English and investigates how a group of Chinese university teachers of English conceive of, and orient to, the language. Interview data suggest that participants orient to both a monolithic view as well as the ‘plurilithic’ reality. The data reveal that monolithic onto...

English is a Lingua Franca when at least one person in a conversation is multilingual and the chosen language of communication is English. You are a potential ELF user if you speak English as an additional language or if you speak English (in any of its social, regional and national varieties) as your main language and you are talking to an additio...