I can't really answer your question, Alex, but there are interesting and
generally rather sceptical articles about ELF in IATEFL Voices 200.
Also:
I-Chun Kuo: Addressing the issue of teaching English as a lingua franca,
in ELTJ 60/3
Ivor Timmis: Native-speaker norms and international English: a classroom
view, in ELTJ 56/3
Jonathan

pronsig_mod pisze:
>
> Hi folks,
> Ok, Jenkins' Lingua Franca Core, which is quoted all over the place,
> was based on 30 hours of
> rather selectively analyzed data. Are there any other studies to
> corroborate, or refute, the
> findings? It seems really strange that Jenkins' original paper
> emphasized that it was
> empirical, yet I haven't seen anything empirical from her since
> (except for that one where she
> interviewed teachers and they all disagreed with her and she ignored
> them, TESOL Quarterly
> 2005, I think).
> Is ELF 'research' a purely political movement, or is there any
> sensible research going on in
> this area? ;-)
>
> Alex.
>
>