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Book SynopsisThis book explores the interfaces of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy. It presents the theoretical aspects of ELF, discusses issues and challenges that ELF raises for the EFL classroom, and demonstrates how EFL practitioners can make use of ELF theorizing for classroom instruction, teacher education, developing language learning materials, policymaking and testing and assessment. Accounts of innovative and practical pedagogical practices and researchers’ insights from diverse geographical, cultural and institutional contexts will inform and inspire EFL practitioners to reconsider their practices and adopt new techniques in order to meet their learners’ diverse communicative needs in international contexts.
Trade ReviewELF has both enriched and problematized aspects of ELT. The discussions in this expertly edited volume provide an ELF perspective on key aspects of ELT principles and practice. This is an invaluable professional development resource for English Language teachers and teacher educators working in different world locations. Highly recommended.
* Constant Leung, King's College London, UK *
With a broad range of theoretical discussions and practical suggestions, this book provides an excellent and accessible introduction to how studies of English as a Lingua Franca are not only relevant to – but essential for – English language teaching. The volume moves us away from a dependency on native-speaker norms and provides alternatives that can be considered and adapted by teachers to suit their own contexts and needs.
* Ahmar Mahboob, The University of Sydney, Australia *
[This book] constitutes an invaluable source of ideas for practicing EFL teachers at any level who wish to go a step further in their approach to English in their classrooms in my opinion. Furthermore, its critical, practical, innovative and social constructivist perspective make it an effective tool to open the reader’s mind. In short, English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts is a book that is worth the attention of anyone involved in the teaching of English as a foreign language.
-- Sara García Cuevas, Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros, Spain * Pulso, 42, 2019 *
...the arguments put forward in this highly recommended book are convincing ones. The real-life communication needs of non-native users of English has led to our re-thinking of teaching approaches.
-- David Rixham EFL teacher, White Rose Language School, Spain * IATEFL Voices 273, March/April 2020 *
Table of ContentsList of abbreviations
Authors’ Bios
Chapter 1. Nicos Sifakis and Natasha Tsantila: Introduction
SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 2. Barbara Seidlhofer and Henry Widdowson: ELF for EFL: A Change of Subject?
Chapter 3. Kurt Kohn: Towards the Reconciliation of ELF and EFL: Theoretical Issues and Pedagogical Challenges
SECTION II: ELF IN EFL PEDAGOGY
Chapter 4. Stefania Kordia: ELF-aware Teaching in Practice: A Teacher’s Perspective
Chapter 5. Sutraphorn Tantiniranat and Richard Fay: Developing an ELF-aware Intercultural Purpose in the Thai University Context
SECTION III: ELF AND EFL LANGUAGE LEARNING MATERIALS
Chapter 6. Lucilla Lopriore and Paola Vettorel: Perspectives in WE- and ELF-informed ELT Materials in Teacher Education
Chapter 7. Lili Cavalheiro and Luís Guerra: When the Textbook is Not Enough: How to Shape an ELF Classroom?
Chapter 8. Domingos Sávio Pimentel Siqueira and Julia Vasconcelos Gonçalves Matos: ELT Materials for Basic Education in Brazil: Has the Time for an ELF-aware Practice Arrived?
SECTION IV: ELF AND EFL TEACHER EDUCATION
Chapter 9. Elif Kemaloglu-Er and Yasemin Bayyurt: ELF-awareness in Teaching and Teacher Education: Explicit and Implicit Ways of Integrating ELF into the English Language Classroom
Chapter 10. Enric Llurda and Vasi Mocanu: Changing Teachers’ Attitudes Towards English as a Lingua Franca
Chapter 11. Areti-Maria Sougari: Exploring Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy in Teaching English as a Lingua Franca
SECTION V: ELF IN EFL ASSESSMENT AND TESTING
Chapter 12. David Newbold: ELF in Language Tests
Chapter 13. Androniki Kouvdou and Dina Tsagari: Towards an ELF-aware Alternative Assessment Paradigm in EFL Contexts
Chapter 14. Andy Kirkpatrick: ELF4ELF Concluding Chapter
