A great video about (relatively) recent research in the field of lingua franca, and new term for me, BELF!
It’s quite long, so skip past all the pleasantries. Use the skip function, but listen at the interesting slides. A real eye opener for those of us who learned about ELF a while ago and haven’t kept up.
In a nutshell, we’ve moved on from the idea of a single language use or EFL, and as a branch of ESP, we (teachers) are probably doing it wrong!
“English as a business lingua franca – recent research and implications -Evan Frendo IATEFL Poland”