User:Potato2357/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
English as a lingua franca

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As someone from a country and having travelled to countries where English is a primary language, English served as a good way to communicate. Therefore, ELF is an interesting phenomena I'm interested to read more about.

Evaluate the article
Overall, the lead section is pretty good in describing what ELF is. However, it uses many quotes (the first sentence has two quotes) where paraphrasing may be better. The lead section could also include brief summaries about the article's major sections.

The content of the article could be improved. Despite the fact that "ELF interactions concentrate on function rather than form", the article still discusses a lot about the "form" of ELF while having relatively less information about the function and use of ELF. However, it does a good job covering a variety of topics relating to ELF. The tone is also pretty neutral, and the article discusses a variety of opinions scholars have said about ELF.

This article does very well on sources. It has a long bibliography of a variety of types of sources. It also includes a long list of references and further readings.

This article is part of the Language, English Language, and Applied Linguistics WikiProjects, all rated at C-class and mid-importance. There are a couple of talk threads discussing parts of the article.