This chapter presents data on workplace interaction in which English is used as a lingua franca to supply information to tourists. Analysis of the data shows that the well-attested ability of ELF speakers to negotiate interactional difficulties using accommodation skills is heightened in the workplace, where there is greater pressure towards resolving areas of misunderstanding even in very brief transactions. As well as illustrating specific cases of accommodation by ELF speakers in the workplace, the chapter identifies specific pedagogical roles that speakers take on during interaction. Skilled ELF users in the workplace are seen to act not only as “learners”, in as much as they calibrate their own language in accordance with their assessment of the competence of their interlocutor (Firth 2009), but also as “teachers”, by making areas of language misunderstanding explicit to their interlocutors during interaction. It is argued that these “languaging” techniques (Swain and Watanabe 2012) are part of the specific interactional competence of the ELF speaker, and that this “teach/learn-as-you-go” style is a distinctive feature of ELF workplace interaction. References Firth, A. 2009. Doing not being a foreign language learner: English as a lingua franca in the workplace and (some) implications for SLA. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 47(1), 127-156.. Swain, M. and Watanabe, Y. 2012. Languaging: collaborative dialogues as a source of second language learning. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

Bowles, H.t. (2015). Learning through Languaging in ELF Service Encounters. In Languaging in and across Communities: New Voices, New Identities (pp. 129-146). Peter Lang.

Learning through Languaging in ELF Service Encounters

BOWLES, HUGO THOMAS
2015-01-01

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This chapter presents data on workplace interaction in which English is used as a lingua franca to supply information to tourists. Analysis of the data shows that the well-attested ability of ELF speakers to negotiate interactional difficulties using accommodation skills is heightened in the workplace, where there is greater pressure towards resolving areas of misunderstanding even in very brief transactions. As well as illustrating specific cases of accommodation by ELF speakers in the workplace, the chapter identifies specific pedagogical roles that speakers take on during interaction. Skilled ELF users in the workplace are seen to act not only as “learners”, in as much as they calibrate their own language in accordance with their assessment of the competence of their interlocutor (Firth 2009), but also as “teachers”, by making areas of language misunderstanding explicit to their interlocutors during interaction. It is argued that these “languaging” techniques (Swain and Watanabe 2012) are part of the specific interactional competence of the ELF speaker, and that this “teach/learn-as-you-go” style is a distinctive feature of ELF workplace interaction. References Firth, A. 2009. Doing not being a foreign language learner: English as a lingua franca in the workplace and (some) implications for SLA. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 47(1), 127-156.. Swain, M. and Watanabe, Y. 2012. Languaging: collaborative dialogues as a source of second language learning. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
2015
Settore L-LIN/12 - LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE
English
Rilevanza internazionale
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english as a lingua franca; languaging; workplace; tourism; accommodation; interactional competence
Bowles, H.t. (2015). Learning through Languaging in ELF Service Encounters. In Languaging in and across Communities: New Voices, New Identities (pp. 129-146). Peter Lang.
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