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1、Availableonlineatwww.sciencedirect.comSystem40(2012)1e10www.elsevier.com/locate/systemELF,ESP,ENLandtheireffectonstudentsaimsandbeliefs:Astructuralequationmodel1KataCsize´r*,EditH.KontraDepartmentofEnglishAppliedLinguistics,Eo¨tvo¨sLora´ndUniversity.Budapest,1088Ra´ko´cziu´t5,H
2、ungaryReceived2March2011;revised9December2011;accepted13December2011AbstractTheinvestigationofEnglishasalinguafranca(ELF)hasproducedsignificantresultsinthelastfewyearsespeciallyinregardtothedescriptionanduseofthisvarietyofEnglishinvariousdomains.Somewhatlessisknownabouthowfarthe
3、learnersandusersofEnglishasaforeignlanguageareawareofthechangingroleofEnglish,howtheyrelatetothenewphenomenonofELF,andinwhatwaysELFaffectstheirlanguagelearningaims.Thepresentstudyinvestigatesthisissueamongaspecificgroupoflearners:tertiarylevelstudentsofvariousbranchesofEnglishfo
4、rSpecificPurposes(ESP).Usingquestionnairedatafrom239studentsfromfourdifferenteducationalinstitutionsinasmallEUcountry,structuralequationmodelingwasperformedtorevealtherelationshipbetweenELF,ESP,Englishasanativelanguage(ENL)andthestudentslanguagelearningbeliefsandaims.Ourmodelsho
5、wsnotonlytheprevailingeffectofENLontheparticipantsaimsandbeliefs,butalsoastrongpresenceofELF,whichseemstobeindependentfromENL.WebelievethistofurthersupporttheclaimthatELFandENLaretwodifferentconstructs.Ó2012ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.Keywords:Englishasalinguafranca;Englishfo
6、rspecificpurposes;Englishasanativelanguage;Languagelearningbeliefs1.IntroductionConceptualizinganddescribingEnglishasalinguafranca(ELF)hasbeenontheagendaofresearchersforwelloveradecadenow.NumerousstudiesinappliedlinguisticshavelookedatvariouseffectsoftheglobalspreadofEnglishrang
7、ingfromlinguistictowidersocio-culturalandpoliticalimplications(Baker,2009;Bhatt,2001;Canagarajah,2007;Dewey,2007;Holliday,1994,2005;House,2003;Jenkins,2000,2005a,2006a,2006b;Kachru,1991,1992;Kramsch,2001;Neuner,2002;Pennycook,1994;Phillipson,1992,2001,2006;Seidlhofer,2003,2004;
8、Seidlhoferetal.,2006;Widdowson,1994,2003).Thoughnoonet
