Global, local or glocal? Identities of L2 learners in English as a Lingua Franca communication

Global, local or glocal? Identities of L2 learners in English as a Lingua Franca communication

• Sung, Matthew Chit Cheung Dept. of English, Lingnan University

Language, Culture and Curriculum, 27(1), 43-57, 2014

Routledge

2014

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FA General Teaching Strategies, Different Instructional Methods

English as A Lingua Franca Glocalisation Identity Second Language Learning

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper reports on an exploratory inquiry into the perceptions of a group of second language (L2) learners of English with regard to their identities in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication contexts. Drawing upon data gathered from two rounds of in-depth interviews with nine participants from a Hong Kong university, the study found that these L2 learners displayed different degrees of affiliations with their local and global identities in ELF communication. While some participants expressed their preference to foreground either their local or global identities, some other participants reconciled their local and global identities and embraced their hybrid, glocal identities in ELF communication. The analysis suggests that ELF communication could offer a myriad of identity options for L2 learners and give rise to hybrid linguistic practices in their L2. Finally, the paper points to the need to acknowledge the role of individuality in identity construction in ELF settings.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 07908318

• 10.1080/07908318.2014.890210

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/c09ebb4e

2014-10-22