English language teacher education in the Czech Republic: Attitudes to ELF

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501503115-006" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501503115-006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501503115-006" target="_blank" >10.1515/9781501503115-006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

English language teacher education in the Czech Republic: Attitudes to ELF

Original language description

This text investigates how teacher educators and students involved in the Teaching of English for Primary and Lower Secondary Schools programme at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic view the issue of (in)appropriateness of native-speaker standard English norms in ELT. It also addresses the question of whether intelligibility rather than conformity to ‘standard English’ might be established as a primary criterion (Flowerdew 2008, Jenkins 2011) for assessing the acceptability of written English in diploma theses. The analysis of questionnaire data suggests that while university teachers mostly direct students towards attaining native-speaker competence, both Czech and international students tend to prioritize comprehensibility and show an awareness of the lingua franca status of English in Europe. In written academic texts, however, and especially in diploma theses marked by a clear gatekeeping function, both students and teachers expect adherence to native-speaker norms. The results of the survey are compared to the findings of a corpus-based analysis of formulaicity in students’ diploma theses aimed at finding to what extent the students use academic formulas typical of expert academic discourse (Simpson-Vlach and Ellis 2010). The relatively narrow range of formulas used by students and the tendency towards variation indicate that students’ written discourse bears traces of some general tendencies established in ELF (Seidlhofer 2004, Jenkins 2011). The pedagogical implications of this investigation concern the need to reflect on the changing role of English in Europe and to incorporate the ELF perspective in teacher education programmes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe: English in Europe: Vol 4

ISBN

9781501511097

ISSN

2364-4303

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

98-122

Publisher name

Mouton de Gruyter

Place of publication

Berlin/Boston

Event location

Thessaloniki, Greece

Event date

Nov 23, 2013

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000462537800006