ELF-Aware In-Service Teacher Education: A Transformative Perspective

  • Yasemin Bayyurt
  • Nicos C. Sifakis
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Part of the International Perspectives on English Language Teaching book series (INPELT)

Abstract

Recent work in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has been focused on defining, delineating, and clarifying the nature of ELF. While some work has addressed issues of teacher education and training (see below for a review), we have yet to see a comprehensive proposal that aims both to educate English as a Foreign Language (henceforth EFL) or English as a Second Language (henceforth ESL) teachers about ELF and to engage them in developing, teaching, and evaluating ELF-aware lessons in their own teaching context.

Keywords

Teacher Education Native Speaker Teaching Context International Language Transformative Perspective 
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  • Nicos C. Sifakis

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