English as a lingua franca
USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
English as a world language; English as a Lingua Franca; American English as a lingua franca
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication"Seidlhofer 2016, p20 and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option".Seidlhofer 2011, p7 ELF is "defined functionally by its use in intercultural communication rather than formally by its reference to native-speaker norms"Hülmbauer, Cornelia et al.