EDITORIAL — ENGLISH AS AN ALIEN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Read any good press releases lately? We can recommend the exercise to anybody who is interested in learning EAL It is a language of the grammatical gimmick, whereby a new word or phraseology is coined in a PR conference and everybody else in the business latches on to it simply because their own working knowledge of basic English vocabulary is sufficiently imprecise to prevent their knowing any better.

Citation

(1988), "EDITORIAL — ENGLISH AS AN ALIEN LANGUAGE", Education + Training, Vol. 30 No. 5, pp. 3-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017427