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Research into the pedagogical implications of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has seen important developments over the last decade, through investigation of how English Language Teaching (ELT) can, and should, respond to the challenges and issues connected to the global spread of English in terms of curricula, syllabi, materials and classroom prac...
Research into Global Englishes, comprising World Englishes (WE) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), has amply shown how complex the plurality of English has become today. The pedagogical implications of WE and ELF have been a widely investigated area, too, with a growing body of literature on teacher education, materials evaluation and classroom...
Research into communication strategies and ELF is a thriving area of investigation, that has so far looked into cooperative strategies leading to successful communication and mutual understanding, or how miscommunication is resolved, above all in academic as well as business ELF (BELF) contexts, and, more recently, international students’ communiti...
The presence of plurilingual practices involving the mixing of local and other languages is widely attested in advertising, mainly with English but also with other languages. Globalization processes have contributed to the global spread of English, but also to the blurring of linguistic and cultural boundaries, with translanguaging and transcultura...
1. Introduction
Teacher education has been identified as one of the most important steps
in fostering a shift in perspective in English language teaching (ELT), one
that takes account of the complex reality into which English has
developed, and one that, by adopting a reflective approach, challenges
teachers’ deeply held notions and beliefs about...
The 10th Anniversary Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, held in Helsinki on 12-15 June 2017, had an exciting theme: “ELF and Changing English”. The general call for papers of the conference made reference to the function of ELF as “a pivotal driver of change in English” and underlined the need to “push the boundaries and explore possibilitie...
This paper discusses how Communication Strategies are dealt with in a set of ELT course-books addressed at Italian secondary school students, published by local and international publishers between 1990 and 2015. After presenting CSs as a field of research, their relevance in English as a Lingua Franca communication is illustrated with reference to...
The complex and varied sociolinguistic reality of World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has important implications for English Language Teaching (ELT). Besides questioning the validity of the ‘native speaker model’, the complexity of Global Englishes raises several issues, both at a theoretical and at an applied level, particularly f...
In this chapter we will explore emerging perspectives related to WE, ELF and ELT materials analysis and development, particularly in the context of teacher education. We will examine criteria for materials evaluation that take account of a WE- and ELF-aware viewpoint. We will then outline guidelines aimed at fostering the development of WE- and ELF...
Teacher education represents an essential step to raise awareness of the sociolinguistic changes brought about by the current pluralization of English and by its lingua franca role. Within the pre-service teacher education programs run at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona, Italy, part of the English language...
The long-standing research in World Englishes (WE) and, more recently, in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has greatly contributed to problematise several areas in connection to English language teaching, highlighting in particular the importance of teacher education as a fundamental step towards a plurilithic approach in ELT. Teacher education can...
The long-standing research in World Englishes (WE) and, more recently, in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has greatly contributed to problematizing several areas in connection to English Language Teaching, highlighting in particular the importance of teacher education as a first and fundamental step towards a more “inclusive” and “realistic” appro...
chapter downloadable at http://ojs.romatrepress.uniroma3.it/index.php/elf
chapter downloadable at http://ojs.romatrepress.uniroma3.it/index.php/elf
Well‐attested findings in the fields of World Englishes, and increasingly in ELF research studies, would demand for a shift in perspective, both in teacher education programs and in the development of English language teaching classroom materials. Findings in ELF research studies, as well as several experimental projects carried out at internationa...
The spread of English, first as a consequence of colonization and then of globalization processes, has brought to a diversification of Englishes. Rather than a monolithic language, connected solely to native Anglophone speakers, English has taken nowadays a plurality of forms, from Inner and Outer circle varieties to its lingua franca function as a...
(2015) Review of P. Giorgis. 2013. Different From Oneself and Similar to Others. L2, Imagination and Literature as Intercultural Pedagogic Practices [Translated from the Italian Diversi da sé simili agli altri.L2, immaginazione e letteratura come pratiche di pedagogia interculturale]. ELT Journal 69/3: 327-330.
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/new-frontiers-in-teaching-and-learning-english
A collection of essays on ELF and pedagogy.
The contributions to this volume explore several focal issues related to the global spread of English and their implications for English language teaching, providing both theoretical and empirical perspectives on recent rese...
Research on ELT textbooks has repeatedly shown that materials have traditionally tended to focus on ‘established’ and standard representations of language, most often presenting British — and to a certain extent American — Standard varieties as the sole valid exemplifications of the English language, failing ‘to acknowledge the increased use of Eng...
(2014) Review of S. Campagna, G. Garzone, C. Ilie, and E. Rowley-Jolivet (eds.). 2012. Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication, Bern: Peter Lang. ELT Journal 2014 68/4: 486-490.
Abstract English language teaching materials usually reflect both the explicit and the implicit attitudes and beliefs of their authors, of the society and the culture of the times they live in. Attitudes and beliefs are bound to change over time and are affected by socio-cultural changes, particularly in areas such as power relationships, the image...
In a constantly interconnected world communication takes place beyond territorial boundaries, in networks where English works as a lingua franca. The volume explores how ELF is employed in internationally-oriented personal blogs; findings show how bloggers deploy an array of resources to their expressive and interactional aims, combining global and...
The study of the linguistic landscape has seen a growing interest in recent years, focusing on written information publicly available in a given territory, city or area (Landry & Bourhis 1997). English is widely present in the linguistic landscape worldwide (e.g. Cenoz & Gorter 2006, 2008; Shohamy & Gorter 2009; Shohamy et al. 2010), often in its l...
This article aims to explore whether well-attested findings in the fields of World Englishes (WE) and of English as a lingua franca (ELF) have determined a shift in perspective in the overall approach to English language teaching (ELT), and how far this shift has permeated teaching materials and coursebooks. The research study was carried out in It...
Language mixing in advertising, particularly with the English language, has been a widely researched area. English is generally used to connote products with a cosmopolitan, international, modern and ‘cool’ hue, and is increasingly mixed with local languages to combine global with local appeal. This paper provides a qualitative investigation of pri...
The presence of English in Europe is increasingly pervasive: experiences “from above” in educational contexts combine with contacts with English “from below” in the linguistic landscape at large. In educational contexts, international school partnerships create increasingly frequent opportunities for learners at different school levels to experienc...
retrievable at http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:vol-2-no-2-june-2012&catid=4:volumes&Itemid=3
(2012) Review of Zhu Hua (ed.). The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader, 2011, ELT Journal 66/1: 140-142.
Review of Intercultural Language Activities, John Corbett 2010, ELT Journal 64/4: 491-493.
