English as a lingua franca in Transient International Groups

The ELF in TIGs project develops a new methodological and descriptive framework for the study of communication in transient multilingual contexts. The project English as a Lingua Franca in Transient International Groups has the aim of establishing a comprehensive conceptual, methodological and descriptive framework for the study of communication in transient lingua franca contexts, i.e. situations that are too short-lived, fleeting or unstable to be considered communities of practice. It is concerned with the systematic empirical description of how communication evolves in interaction in different ELF contexts and in different group constellations across time.