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European English in the EFL classroom?: Teacher attitudes towards target varieties of English in Sweden and Germany
University of Bonn, Germany.
University of Paderborn, Germany.
Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication, HLK, Communication, Culture and Diversity (CCD). Stockholm University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0884-6110
2021 (English)In: English Today, ISSN 0266-0784, E-ISSN 1474-0567, Vol. 37, no 2, p. 85-91Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The UK is facing important changes in the near future, with Brexit, i.e. the UK leaving the European Union (EU), looming ever more closely on the horizon. These important political and economic changes will certainly have an influence on Europe as a whole, and have had linguistic consequences for the English language, such as Brexit-related neologisms (Lalić-Krstin & Silaški, 2018). As Modiano (2017a) suggests, Brexit might also have an influence on the status of the English language in the EU, in particular with regard to the dominance of native speaker varieties. In this article, we discuss the possibility of the use of a neutral European English variety in the EFL classrooms of two EU member states, i.e. Sweden and Germany. Based on a survey among 80 practitioners in secondary schools (first results were presented in Forsberg, Mohr & Jansen, 2019), the study investigates attitudes towards target varieties of English in general, and European English or ‘Euro-English’ (cf. Jenkins, Modiano & Seidlhofer, 2001; Modiano 2003) in particular, after the referendum in June 2016.

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Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vol. 37, no 2, p. 85-91
Keywords [en]
engelska, engelska i Sverige, engelska i Tyskland, EuroEnglish, European English, lingua franca, mid-atlantic English, native speaker norm
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-46894DOI: 10.1017/S0266078419000403ISI: 000647540700004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105591912Local ID: HOA;intsam;1372620OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-46894DiVA, id: diva2:1372620
Available from: 2019-11-25 Created: 2019-11-25 Last updated: 2022-10-10Bibliographically approved

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