Andy Kirkpatrick

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine and re-evaluate concepts such as "standard", "variety", "native speaker" and "non-native speaker", arguing that context and learner needs should determine the variety to be taught.

TL;DR: The authors considers the pedagogical and language policy implications of this role of English as a lingua franca throughout ASEAN and provides a linguistic description of this ELF along with a description of the communicative strategies of its users.

TL;DR: The authors provide a brief history of lingua francas and compare and contrast Bahasa Indonesia and Putonghua in order to show how different their developmental paths have been, with a particular focus on English's role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the presence of these L1 discourse and rhetorical norms should not be seen as deviations from Anglo norms, but that, as Chinese speakers are more likely to use the language with other English speakers in the East Asian region rather than with speakers of inner circle varieties of English, the Chinese variety of English is actually a more culturally appropriate model of English than any superimposed ‘Anglo’ norm.

TL;DR: The authors investigated features of the pronunciation of this lingua franca and found that only those shared features of pronunciation not shared by speakers from other ASEAN countries resulted in a break-down in communication.