Priming learners to use English as a Lingua Franca with other plurilingual speakers during fieldwork in Cambodia, Jenny Morgan

With the majority of global English users being non native speakers in Asian contexts, how can educators help Japanese students shift their perspectives of ideal linguistic role models from the idealised native speaker standard to the competent (NNS) plurilingual user of English? This presentation discusses language use during a field trip in Cambodia where Japanese university students exploited diverse opportunities for English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication finding near-peer role models among Cambodian students and local people in daily interactions.

Priming learners to use English as a Lingua Franca with other plurilingual speakers during fieldwork in Cambodia

LD SIG Forum at JALT2017

Please join us on Saturday 18 November for the 2017 Learner Development SIG Forum: "International Communities: Fostering Learner Development On A Global Stage"(10:55 am – 12:25 pm) Convention Hall 300, Epochal Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken. For more information, see the LD-SIG Forum 2017 page.

The LD SIG Grants for 2017

Please note the deadlines. All grant titles link to their respective information pages on the site.

PanSIG Conference Grant
- Friday, 17 March 2017 (23:59)

JALTCALL Conference Grant
- Friday, 14 April 2017 (23:59)

JALT International Conference Grant
- Friday, 25 August 2017 (23:59)

Research Grant
- Friday, 30 June 2017 (23:59)

Project Grants
- Friday, 30 June 2017 (23:59)

LD SIG Membership & Subscription Grants - Rolling Deadline

In addition to the above grants for SIG members, the LD SIG is again offering 5 free SIGmemberships for JALT members who are not currently LD-SIG members, and 5 free SIGsubscriptions for people who are not JALT members. These membership and subscription grants are the SIG's way of trying to introduce the SIG and the SIG's aims to more JALT/non-JALT members, and of course to also secure new members. Some of our current SIG officers actually started off their involvement with the SIG through these membership/subscription grants, so we do believe they are beneficial. However, as they target non-SIG members it really is up to current SIGmembers to introduce these opportunities to potentially interested colleagues/students and to encourage them to apply. People can gain most benefit from these grants by applying early and getting involved from the start of the academic year, so please do reach out to anyone who you think may be interested. There is no deadline for these grants; rather applicants will be considered on a first come first served basis.

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