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The spread of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has been and continues to be examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, particularly applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. The growing interest in ELF is also evidentin the series of ELF conferences that have been taking place every year since 8 and in the launch of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca in . The spread of English as an international language has been examined according to different paradigms, including that of World Englishes (WE), which focuses on the multifaceted nature of English around the world (Rubdy and Saraceni 6), and English as an International Language, or International English (IE), which would appear to encourage a monolithic view of language, giving rise to interesting debates among scholars with opposing views. A special issue of World Englishes (Seidlhofer and Berns 9) tried to bring …