Language and Business Engineering Students' Attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca in Wallonia

English is one of the most frequently used languages in international business communication today. It is overwhelmingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) by users whose mother tongue is not English or between native and non-native speakers of English (Seidelhofer 2001, Jenkins 2007). University students in non-English speaking countries often take classes in English as part of their programmes. This paper focuses on some of these students' perception of ELF. In a quantitative study Xu and Van de Poel (2011) explored the attitudes of 69 Flemish undergraduate students of English (at the University... Mehr ...