Lingua Franca English, Multilingual Communities, and Language Acquisition

SURESH CANAGARAJAH ^[1]
1. [1] Pennsylvania State University
  
  Pennsylvania State University
  
  Borough of State College, Estados Unidos
Localización: Modern language journal, ISSN 0026-7902, Vol. 91, Nº 0, 2007, págs. 923-939
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Firth and Wagner (1997) questioned the dichotomies nonnative versus native speaker, learner versus user, and interlanguage versus target language, which reflect a bias toward innateness, cognition, and form in language acquisition. Research on lingua franca English (LFE) not only affirms this questioning, but reveals what multilingual communities have known all along: Language learning and use succeed through performance strategies, situational resources, and social negotiations in fluid communicative contexts. Proficiency is therefore practice-based, adaptive, and emergent. These findings compel us to theorize language acquisition as multimodal, multisensory, multilateral, and, therefore, multidimensional. The previously dominant constructs such as form, cognition, and the individual are not ignored; they get redefined as hybrid, fluid, and situated in a more socially embedded, ecologically sensitive, and interactionally open model.