The Awareness of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and How It Affects English Language Teaching (ELT)

摘要

Through this paper, and the various points that have been discussed, it is evident that the ELF awareness is a basic framework which could be used to interpret the beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives of stakeholders. Also, hopefully, this study should influence the principles by which learning activities and classroom practices are implemented. The paper argues that core considerations must be taken into cognizance, as reviewed below, in the perspective of raising ELF awareness while reviewing the place of including ELF awareness concerns and ideas into current curriculum designing and development in order to aid broader application and for maximal impact on the principles and practices that govern ELT within a globally integrative perspective.