The lingua franca curriculum can also include topics that
might be considered as culture with a ‘small c’. For example, it is
evident from the Asian Corpus of English that, not surprisingly,
the topics that Asian multilinguals discuss are primarily concerned
with Asian events and phenomena. Such topics could therefore
provide materials for the ASEAN ELT lingua franca curriculum. A
curriculum incorporating these changes would seem particularly
important given the move towards the Asian Economic Community
in 2015 (Chongkittavorn, 2014).