Course Description

The course explores English in intercultural contexts through three strands: English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), intercultural pragmatics, and sociolinguistic variation and change. Teaching emphasises intelligibility-focused production (early statement of purpose, discourse signposting, concise phrasing, sentence emphasis), interactional strategies (polite requests, refusals with reasons and alternatives, brief repair sequences), and bias-aware listening to various varieties of English. All activities and assessments are individual.