"[...] different groups of people, with diverse
interests, agendas, and linguistic and cultural
repertoires, experience, in their contacts and
interactional flows, processes of constituting
open and plural identities. This is the scenario of
English as a lingua franca, and in it, learning
English implies problematizing the different
roles of English itself in the world, its values, its
reach, and its effects on the relationships between
different peoples and peoples, both in
contemporary society and from a historical
perspective."
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ndamental/lingua-inglesa
Implication of teaching English as a lingua franca
for the approach to beliefs about language: