English as a Lingua Franca – what should we be teaching?
We’re living in an age of unprecedented language contact and hence, language change. At least 1bn people in the world speak English, but only around 330m are native speakers.
For many of our students, English is the company language and just a fact of life. It’s used because it happens to be the language that’s shared in many business contexts. So how is successful communication achieved when many or all of the people involved are non-native English speakers? And what does this mean for our classes and what we should be teaching?
For a full day prior to the IATEFL conference in Glasgow, BESIG is going to explore these questions. This day will build bridges from research to the classroom, and move the discussions of ELF and BELF on to the practical ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of teaching. It’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty and look at what ELF and BELF research means at the chalkface.
Speakers:
Chia Suan Chong on 'My journey with ELF'
Mark Powell on 'Lean Language II - What does lean mean?
Vicki Hollett on 'Learning from ELF success stories'
And joining the other speakers to address questions from the floor in a panel discussion, Almut Koester
This is a ‘must attend’ event for professional English teachers and course directors and developers whose students need to communicate in international contexts.
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