The university’s English language program teaches all first-year students with the goal of covering all the basic English skills needed for their own personal requirements and further academic study. In order to do this more uniformly and efficiently, it was decided that a new first-year study guide needed to be developed. This presentation will detail the reasons behind the need for such a study guide, and the planning, writing, testing and editing of the materials.

This presentation will describe an elective course that has been introduced with the aim of encouraging university students to read for pleasure and to become more actively engaged with texts by developing their writing skills. It is the instructor`s hope that they will become more critical readers by learning to be better writers.

By adopting conversation analysis, this study examines how English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers manage their intercultural communication through code-switching in a task-based language activity at a university. The analysis shows that ELF speakers employed code-switching as an interactional resource to enhance their communication, build social relationships, and preserve the face of the participants.