The music of language: Prosodic features of English as a lingua franca

Abstract or Summary

The lingua franca movement argues for the acknowledgement of the contribution of second language speakers to international English as the world’s first truly global language by advocating a move away from native-speaker norms in the teaching of pronunciation (Kachru, 1992; Seidlhofer, 2004). This presentation builds on research into aspects of lingua franca and intelligibility theory to present a series of pronunciation features that appear necessary for intelligible pronunciation in English lingua franca contexts and, I argue, should thus be prioritised by teachers and learners of pronunciation.