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Bayyurt, Yasemin; Kurt, Yavuz; Öztekin, Elifcan; Guerra, Luis; Cavalheiro, Lili; Pereira, Ricardo – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Today English has become the Lingua Franca or common language of many people, regardless of their being native or nonnative speaker of English all over the world. Therefore, it has become necessary to educate pre-/in-service teachers with an awareness towards the significance of the involvement of an "English as a lingua franca" (ELF)…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Gozdawa-Golebiowski, Romuald – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This paper examines the status of European English (EE) in current linguistic theory, in particular the hotly debated issue of whether or not it is possible to treat EE as an endonormative linguistic variety in its own right. Alternatively, EE may remain a form of English as a foreign language (EFL), and the decision has far-reaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Epistemology
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Prieto-Arranz, Jose Igor; Juan-Garau, Maria; Jacob, Karen Lesley – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing