1. What I have learnt from the topic
presented
English as a
Multilingual Franca (EMF) is multilingual communication in which English is
available as a contact language of choice, but it is not necessarily chosen. In
other words, EMF refers to multilingual communication settings in which English
is known to everyone present, so it is always potentially in the ‘language mix’,
but in which people may choose to use a different language from English (partly
or entirely), or a combination of other different languages.
Early
influences on ELF Research:
1.
Language attitudes/
mutual (noun) intelligibility (Wolf 1959)
It seems to
be very interested to understand the language attitudes. Phonological/phonetic accommodation
skills are equally important for the ELF students.
2.
Speech/communication
accommodation theory (giles a all)
Accommodation
involves the way people adjust their language. People have a conversation to
make their partner understand about what they say and intend to get an
attention.
3.
World
Englishes: legitimizing non –native English (es)
The EFL
students particularly have the different languages and they are trying to adapt
English as their own language, for example the pronunciation. Many native
English pronunciation features found in the data not to contribute to
intelligibility in ELF communication.
Some ideological positions about non-native
English, for example fallacies “that in the outer and expanding Circle, English
is essentially learned to interact with native speakers. In a major conceptual
difference, in contrast to the national, geographically definable WE varieties,
ELF by definition transcends language boundaries, so cannot be geographically
definable and its resulting fluidity means we cannot talk to ELF ‘varieties’.
In our age of actual/virtual mobility and the
resulting super diversity, there is too much emphasizes on English and not enough
emphasis on the role of the other language spoken by the majority of English
users.
There are
some potential implications of EMF:
1. The crucial distinction for competence
2.
There is a
need to test skills in multilingualism for English Language Assessment.
3. ELT needs to incorporate into teaching
methodology
2. What is the relationship of the conference
topic and today’s classroom?
This conference helps to develop
our knowledge in presenting a topic in a conference and how to organize it. It also gives some contributions in writing a good
manuscript.
4.
What are things we learn from the presenter?
From the presentation, the speaker had prepared
all the things well. It showed from the presentation slide, she organized the
topic from the main to the specific idea. She also put some bolds in words or sentences
which are important to help the audience got the main idea easily. The presenter
also has a good ethic in delivering her speech; she conveyed her apology if in
the middle of the presentation will be some technical distractions occurred.
