English as a Lingua Franca: Forms and Features in a Swiss Context
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English, Sociolinguistic Competence, ELF, Switzerland, SLA, LVC

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Durham, M. (2016). English as a Lingua Franca: Forms and Features in a Swiss Context. Cahiers Du Centre De Linguistique Et Des Sciences Du Langage, (48), 107–118. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2016.427

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This paper considers how the way that English is learned and used in Switzerland may affect the form it takes. Focussing particularly on features demonstrating sociolinguistic competence, it aims to present the different ways that English as a lingua franca speakers may, and may not, acquire the patterns found in native speakers. Although there is no way to predict which features will and will not be natively acquired, the paper demonstrates how sociolinguistic competence is a valuable tool in understanding how English might develop in future in Switzerland and elsewhere as different features have different outcomes.

https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2016.427
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