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While written English continues to hold fairly closely to international “centric” norms, the forms of spoken English which are evolving in Asia – varieties of Canagarajah’s “Lingua Franca English” – show properties which are more fluid, emergent, contingent and creative, and which are strongly influenced by many kinds of contextual factors for each act of communication. The characteristics of the successful language user, and successful language use, in LFE English are closer to Intercultural Communication than they are to mainstream English language pedagogy. These characteristics include language, pragmatic and cultural competence, and can be provisionally grouped under the heading of “communicacy”, a cognitive and interpersonal expertise parallel to literacy and numeracy. Communicacy involves openness to variation and switching; expertise in repair and recovery; negotiation and accommodation; emotional intelligence; and more broadly in intercultural communication
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Sussex, R., Kirkpatrick, A. (2012). A Postscript and a Prolegomenon. In: Kirkpatrick, A., Sussex, R. (eds) English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education. Multilingual Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4578-0_14
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