Keeping up with ELF: An Analysis of Erasmus Students’ Attitudes
Keeping up with ELF: An Analysis of Erasmus Students’ Attitudes
The aim of this paper is to give an insight into the perspectives of Erasmus students. The focus is ontheir experience, in particular, and how and to what degree ELF speakers in the study becameaccustomed to a new educational environment, and whether any obstacles materialised in the process.The goal is to demonstrate the significance of ELF-awareness and the role of English in this particularspeech community. Qualitative methods were deployed to obtain the research results i.e. semistructured, informal ELF conversations between Erasmus exchange students at a university in Austriawere tape-recorded and transcribed accordingly. During the interviews, students were asked questionsabout English as spoken at the university, and were instructed to compare and contrast the experiencesgained at a university in Austria with those at their primary universities of instruction. The analysis willshow the extent to which a new surrounding can influence the attitudes of Erasmus students.© 2019 EJAL & the Authors. Published by Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL). This is an open-accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-NC-ND)(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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