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About Jennifer Jenkins (linguist)
- Jennifer Jenkins, FAcSS (born 1950) is a British linguist and academic.
- She is Chair Professor of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton.
- She is a leading figure in the study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and is an expert on communication in English between non-native speakers.
- This is a relatively new field of study and her opinions are sometimes seen as controversial.
- Her interests include attitudes to the international range of "Englishes", English as a lingua franca in higher education, and the implications of ELF for ways of teaching English as a foreign language.
- She has published and lectured widely and is a founder editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.
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