“…By bringing up considerations about English as a lingua franca (ELF), Coordinator 1 puts to the fore reflections on uses, functions, and contexts, in which English is the means of interaction between speakers who are predominantly non-native, people who have English as an available tool for communication in international and intercultural contexts (SEIDLHOFER, 2011;JENKINS, 2006JENKINS, , 2009. ELF offers a distinctive view of English in the sense that that English is defined as nobody's mother tongue (JORDÃO, 2014), implying the recognition that its diffusion began through conquest and colonization processes, continuing to spread worldwide due to several individual interests in learning English as an addition to their first languages, having diversity is one of its main characteristics (SEIDLHOFER, 2004(SEIDLHOFER, , 2011.…”