"[...] different groups of people, with diverse interests, agendas, and linguistic and cultural repertoires, experience, in their contacts and interactional flows, processes of constituting open and plural identities. This is the scenario of English as a lingua franca, and in it, learning English implies problematizing the different roles of English itself in the world, its values, its reach, and its effects on the relationships between different peoples and peoples, both in contemporary society and from a historical perspective."
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Implication of teaching English as a lingua franca for the approach to beliefs about language: