Abstract
Due to the global scale of English use, English as a lingua franca (ELF) is at play. Given this reality, exposes to different varieties of English rather than a single variety of English, preparing second language learners to Englishes is paramount for readiness to involve in ELF communication. This paper reports on the classroom instruction of exposing college listeners with Englishes via TED talks using a portfolio to find out how they see these varieties and what they can learn from them. Data were from records of portfolio and questions at the end of the instruction. Using general inductive analysis, there were three lessons learned from the instruction. Acknowledgement of many models of English, Englishes can be the ‘right’ English, and Englishes as a marker of identity were lessons observed to appear from the Englishes exposure. The exposes to Englishes also brought about complexities of wholehearted adoption to Indonesian accent. Pedagogical implications for classroom instructions are also made.
Highlights
English today becomes the language of multicultural interactions in the global context both in face-to-face communication and online digital encounters
There are a number of English models Generally, the participants observed that having to listen to TED talks from different speakers every week who were from different nationalities open their eyes in several ways
They acknowledged in the classroom discussion that they had not had any experiences of listening to TED talk before
Summary
English today becomes the language of multicultural interactions in the global context both in face-to-face communication and online digital encounters. Proposed by Crystal has been considered ‘conservative’ figure This number of NNS from the outer circle (countries which were under the colony of British resulting English to become the language of the community) for example Singapore, Malaysia, India, Philippines, South Africa) and from the expanding circle (countries which were not under the colony of British, English is usually a foreign language and not used widely except for instrumental purpose such as a business) for example, Korea, Thailand, Japan, Iran, including Indonesia, statistically surpass the inner circle in which English is a native language, for instance, the UK, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. 200), “English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the common language of choice among speakers who come from different linguacultural background” She explains that sociolinguistically English is used to get things done, to socialize, and to communicate (Jenkins and Leung, 2014). As Sung (2016a, p.190) argues exposing L2 learners with different accents, rather than one or two (i.e. Received Pronunciation and General American) will reasonably result in more prepared language users
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