Teaching English as a Lingua Franca in Spain: A Possible New Paradigm

Abstract

When English was taught in the past, a native accent either RP or GA have been chosen. Linguists are aware of the emergence of a new accent: English as a lingua franca. Students vary in their teaching expectations; they may only want to communicate with international people, in which case they would only need to be instructed on those crucial features for intelligibility purposes. Experts are developing new corpora in order to reach further conclusions concerning this new trend. But not everyone would agree with this view: within a Spanish context, new teaching materials and resources would be needed.