LUKE PRODROMOU
Biographic Data
| ID | 5999294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | LUKE PRODROMOU |
| GIVEN NAMES | LUKE |
| FAMILY NAME | PRODROMOU |
| SIGNATURE | PRODROMOU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching and learning in a multi-cultural school in Thessaloniki
Based on a presentation to the ICC conference in Greece in April 2018, this paper discusses the challenges of teaching English as a foreign language to refugees and migrants of school age in Greece and offers teaching strategies to improve motivation and meet the cultural challenges facing students in mixed classes of various nationalities, age ranges and language levels. It also explores motivation in the context of Maslow’s analysis. It goes on…
Sandra Mollin
Journal Article Sandra Mollin: Euro-English: Assessing Variety Status.Jennifer Jenkins: English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity. Get access Sandra Mollin: EURO-ENGLISH: ASSESSING VARIETY STATUS. Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. Jennifer Jenkins: ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: ATTITUDE AND IDENTITY. Oxford University Press, 2007. Luke Prodromou Luke Prodromou University of Nottingham, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Kettles of fish
Some reflections on the nature of ELF. The focus in this article is what scholars of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) have referred to as ‘unilateral idiomaticity’ (UI): the use by speakers and writers of idiomatic language which is not understood by the other participants in the interaction. The writer will attempt to identify actual occurrences of UI, drawing on both corpus evidence and an email survey of fifty L1 and L2 ELF-users and will also…
Bumping into creative idiomaticity
Jesperson (1904:16–17) described phraseology as an ‘indispensable’ dimension of language competence, but in 1965 Chomsky banished idiomaticity to the fringes of linguistics, giving pride of place to syntax. It seems, however, that time has vindicated Jespersen's prioritizing of formulaic language. In recent years, the area of phraseology has evolved from its peripheral Chomskyan status to a fundamental role in language discussion, description, an…
Is ELF a variety of English
This article discusses recent attempts to describe English as a lingua franca (ELF). In it, I will consider claims made for ELF as a variety of English ‘with a life of its own’, which is said to be emerging among users of English for whom it is not their mother tongue. I examine a number of weaknesses in the case made for ELF by a school of thinking in mainland Europe, focusing on: the role of the native speaker in ELF; the relationship between E…
A Reader Responds to J. Jenkins's “Current Perspectives on Teaching World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca”
Idiomaticity and the non-native speaker
In this article, I describe the puzzle of idiomaticity in native and non-native uses of English: why are idioms so resistant to acquisition, even by advanced leaners and users of English? I identify the main cause of this problem in the “idiomatic paradox”, whereby the very reasons which make idiomaticity so natural and necessary in native-speaker discourse are precisely the reasons non-native speakers find them so elusive. I look at some of the …
Theatrical and Dramatic Techniques in Efl
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Theatrical and Dramatic Techniques in Efl
Idiomaticity and the non-native speaker
In this article, I describe the puzzle of idiomaticity in native and non-native uses of English: why are idioms so resistant to acquisition, even by advanced leaners and users of English? I identify the main cause of this problem in the “idiomatic paradox”, whereby the very reasons which make idiomaticity so natural and necessary in native-speaker discourse are precisely the reasons non-native speakers find them so elusive. I look at some of the …
Kettles of fish
Some reflections on the nature of ELF. The focus in this article is what scholars of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) have referred to as ‘unilateral idiomaticity’ (UI): the use by speakers and writers of idiomatic language which is not understood by the other participants in the interaction. The writer will attempt to identify actual occurrences of UI, drawing on both corpus evidence and an email survey of fifty L1 and L2 ELF-users and will also…
Bumping into creative idiomaticity
Jesperson (1904:16–17) described phraseology as an ‘indispensable’ dimension of language competence, but in 1965 Chomsky banished idiomaticity to the fringes of linguistics, giving pride of place to syntax. It seems, however, that time has vindicated Jespersen's prioritizing of formulaic language. In recent years, the area of phraseology has evolved from its peripheral Chomskyan status to a fundamental role in language discussion, description, an…
Is ELF a variety of English
This article discusses recent attempts to describe English as a lingua franca (ELF). In it, I will consider claims made for ELF as a variety of English ‘with a life of its own’, which is said to be emerging among users of English for whom it is not their mother tongue. I examine a number of weaknesses in the case made for ELF by a school of thinking in mainland Europe, focusing on: the role of the native speaker in ELF; the relationship between E…
A Reader Responds to J. Jenkins's “Current Perspectives on Teaching World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca”
Sandra Mollin
Journal Article Sandra Mollin: Euro-English: Assessing Variety Status.Jennifer Jenkins: English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity. Get access Sandra Mollin: EURO-ENGLISH: ASSESSING VARIETY STATUS. Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. Jennifer Jenkins: ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: ATTITUDE AND IDENTITY. Oxford University Press, 2007. Luke Prodromou Luke Prodromou University of Nottingham, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Teaching and learning in a multi-cultural school in Thessaloniki
Based on a presentation to the ICC conference in Greece in April 2018, this paper discusses the challenges of teaching English as a foreign language to refugees and migrants of school age in Greece and offers teaching strategies to improve motivation and meet the cultural challenges facing students in mixed classes of various nationalities, age ranges and language levels. It also explores motivation in the context of Maslow’s analysis. It goes on…
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · English as a lingua franca (5 works) · Lingua franca (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works)