What is it about?
ELF awareness is an important new notion in ELT. We describe its role and usefulness for teachers and clarify the function of change (and, in effect, transformation) in stakeholders' perspectives about key concerns in ELT, such as the role of the native speakers of English, norms and standards, the issue of ownership of the language by it so-called non-native users, as well as the role of teaches pedagogues and agents of change for their own learners.
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Why is it important?
The paper helps clarify the term "ELF awareness", the key function of transformative learning in ELT pedagogy that it introduces and how it can be integrated into teaching.
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We hope the paper clarifies the important and innovative, if also challenging, role of the new term "ELF awareness" for ELT teachers and other stakeholders.
Professor Nicos Sifakis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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This page is a summary of: ELF-aware teacher education and transformative learning. Comments on Éva Illés, Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jelf-2016-0007.
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