The paper presents a notional account of the challenges facing the introduction of English as an international lingua franca (ELF) curriculum in the state schools of the expanding circle, taking Greece as a case in point. It broadly delineates an ELF curriculum as one focusing on the skills necessary for carrying out successful communication…

Describes a survey designed to elicit student's views of what language teaching should be about and tests a number of previously expressed hypotheses: the importance or otherwise of bilingual, bicultural teachers; native-speaker models of English; and cultural content of English lessons in contexts where English is a foreign rather than a second…

There is no immigration problems in Greece today. On the contrary, the country's economic development makes it necessary for Greek workers who have emigrated temporarily to return and be integrated into the production system. The educational policy for emigrant workers' children involves: (1) ensuring that children who have settled abroad know…