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English Team-Taught Lessons in a Primary School

This study investigates how homeroom teachers (HRTs) use English as a lingua franca (ELF) as a strategy in English lessons with assistant language teachers (ALTs) and pupils in a Japanese primary school. The use of English as a lingua franca by the HRTs has various functions such as 1) giving directions, 2) managing pupils’ behavior, 3) giving encouragement, and 4) praising, with the use of repetition (Kaur, 2012) to enhance the intelligibility.