Vol. 5 No. 2 (2019)

Sabriye Şener Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4926-8940Süleyman Gün Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0388-7263Keywords: Erasmus students, exchange students, student mobility, target culture Abstract This study aims to shed light on the preferences and problems of Erasmus+ exchange programme students before and during the mobility process. The research was organized in qualitative research method phenomenological design. …

Reflections of Incoming Erasmus+ Exchange Students at a Turkish University Context Read More »

Melike Ünal Gezer TED University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-9611Keywords: English as a lingua franca, refugee children, Syrian, multicultural education, ELF Abstract Turkey presents a unique picture as the host of the highest number of Syrian refugees after the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), Turkey has more …

Looking Through the Multicultural Glass: Re-Examination of Syrian Refugee Children Education in Turkey Read More »

Müzeyyen Nazli Güngör Gazi University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-3814Sumru Akcan Boğaziçi University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7395-4727Dorota Werbinska Pomeranian University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-7199Malgorzata Ekiert Pomeranian University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1996-7284Keywords: Novice teachers, early years, challenges, critical incidents, professional understanding, diversity Abstract Given the importance of novice teacher experiences and their long-term effects in the field, this cross-cultural exploratory study investigates the challenges of 34 novice Turkish and …

The Early Years of Teaching: A Cross-Cultural Study of Turkish and Polish Novice English Teachers Read More »

Silvia Sperti Roma Tre University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-061XKeywords: ELT, migration, English as a Lingua Franca, language mediation, intercultural communication Abstract ELF cross-cultural interactions and mediation processes in specialized migration settings are often characterized by ‘gatekeeping’ asymmetries between the participants involved challenging a successful meaning negotiation (Guido, 2008). The exploration of migration encounters (Sperti, 2017) is particularly useful …

Cross-cultural Mediation in ELF Migration Contexts: Pedagogical Implications on ELT Multilingual Settings Read More »

Işıl Erduyan Boğaziçi University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0542-3788Keywords: scales, translocality, interaction analysis, ELF, migration Abstract Focusing on a group of multilingual German-Turkish students enrolled at an urban high-school in Berlin, this paper inquires how ELF identities and transnational experiences inform each other. Semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews conducted as part of a larger project (Erduyan, 2019) are analyzed through microethnographic …

“I mean, I like English even better than Turkish”: English-speaking German-Turkish Students as Multilingual Transnationals Read More »

Nikola Jokic Institute of English Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-9297Keywords: English as a lingua franca, Erasmus students, language attitudes Abstract The aim of this paper is to give an insight into the perspectives of Erasmus students. The focus is on their experience, in particular, and how and to what degree ELF speakers in the study became accustomed to …

Keeping up with ELF: An Analysis of Erasmus Students’ Attitudes Read More »

Maria Grazia Guido University of Salento https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8296-7984Pietro Luigi Iaia University of Salento https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9247-3555Lucia Errico University of Salento https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-6230Keywords: English as a Lingua Franca, Responsible Tourism, migrants’ ELF sea-journey narratives, ELF translation of Ancient-Greek and Latin journey narratives, multimodal ethnopoetic analysis Abstract This paper reports on a research project in Responsible Tourism (Prayag, Hosany, & Odeh, …

Promoting Responsible Tourism by Exploring Sea-voyage Migration Narratives through ELF: An Experiential-linguistic Approach to Multicultural Community Integration Read More »

Éva Illés Eötvös Loránd University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5998-3716Keywords: anti-immigration campaign, political discourse, terminology, national curriculum Abstract Despite the decreasing number of immigrants and their negligible presence, migration has dominated Hungarian public discourse. The article investigates issues related to migration in three contexts. First, samples from the government’s immigration discourse, including a legislative package proposal and billboards, are …

The Representation of Migration in the Hungarian Context Read More »

Yasemin Bayyurt Boğaziçi University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3851-0888Yavuz Kurt Boğaziçi University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3301-5316Elifcan Öztekin Boğaziçi University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8865-5401Luis Guerra University of Evora https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-3789Lili Cavalheiro University of Lisbon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-2603Ricardo Pereira Polytechnic of Leiria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4885-0795Keywords: English as a lingua franca (ELF), ELF-awareness, in-service teacher education, multilingual/multicultural contexts Abstract Today English has become the Lingua Franca or common language of many people, regardless …

English Language Teachers’ Awareness of English as a Lingua Franca in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts Read More »