Academic Scientific JournalsEnglish as a lingua franca: Attitudes of Polish interpreting students
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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2020.1.02Keywords:
interpreter training, English as a lingua franca, non-standard English, language attitudesAbstract
Recent decades have witnessed the growing presence of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in international communication, which has emerged as one of the major factors influencing the interpreting profession. What follows is the debate concerning presence of ELF in interpreter training. However, before any curricula modifications are introduced, what needs to be taken into consideration is the perspective of interpreting students – their expectations and preferences concerning the variety of English they want to work with during their studies.
The present study is an attempt to investigate attitudes displayed by English philology students enrolled in translation and interpreting programmes towards native and non-native English. The research tool was a questionnaire. The results suggest that the students might not necessarily welcome frequent exposure to ELF at the cost of Standard British or Standard American English during practical classes, including interpreting. However, it is hypothesized that the respondents’ conservative attitude is not the result of a thorough understanding of ELF, but rather the reflection of insufficient knowledge and uncritical embrace of the stereotypical mass-culture narration that tends to romanticize certain varieties of English while dismissing others
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