Less is more: Pathways to a simpler, plainer people's English as an equitable lingua franca

• Main Author: Templer, B.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: LB Theory and practice of education
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/9382/1/Less_is_more_pathways_to_a_simpler%2C_plainer_people%27s_English_as_an_equitable_lingua_franca.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/9382/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Sustainable educational innovation needs to address a major problem: the great gap in the learning of English as a lingua franca (ELF) between the privileged and less privileged ('non-dominant') across the planet. Ordinary learners in Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and other corners of the world...