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• TITLE: Language Use and Management in Mining Companies in the DRC

  AUTHORS: Mambo Kalume, Katsuva Ngoloma, Mulamba Nshindi, Phillipe Hambye, Kyungu Kibamba, Mukunda Mutombo

  KEYWORDS: Language Use and Management, Mining Companies, Multinational Companies, DRC

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.5 No.8, August 23, 2018

  ABSTRACT: This paper aims at highlighting how English is gaining momentum on tiptoe in the Democratic Republic of Congo through mining companies as its gateways, although the country traditionally belongs to Kachru’s Expanding Circle, and to which extent these mining companies, which to a large extent are branches of multinational companies, cope with language use and management within multilingual workplaces. The insights gained from various companies demonstrate that the adoption of English alone as a corporate language is not enough and that multilingual communication would be the best practice to overcome language barriers within these workplaces.