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While we all know that English is – and has been for a long time – the global lingua franca, primarily used for communication between its ‘non-native speakers’, this idea is yet to have a meaningful impact on how we teach the language. In this book, written together with Robert Lowe, we suggest how we could teach English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and how this might differ from teaching EFL or ESL.
We review over 20 years of research about ELF language use and present over 40 practical activities showing how this research can be applied in class to teach listening, pronunciation, communicative skills…
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The ‘th’ sound is a very difficult sound to pronounce. But does it actually matter for intelligibility. Does it make any difference for clear pronunciation?
Recently, I’ve talked to Lee Mackenzie about discrimination in ELT job ads. Lee has researched different forms of discriminatory hiring practices in ELT and shares
Do you still talk about yourself as a ‘non-native speaker’? In this video I give 3 reasons why by using the term ‘non-native speaker’ in
We all know that English is primarily used by ‘non-native speakers’ as a global lingua franca. Yet, for the most part, we still only use
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