TEACHING ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA

Abstract

The term “English as a lingua franca” (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. There has become a challenge for the teachers of English where the language is taught as the foreign one because of focusing on the RP and native English speakers itself. Although new point of view on the learning does not exactly mean the participation of English native speakers in ELF interaction.