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From policies as entities to policies as engagements: Transforming English language teachers into ELF‐aware practitioners
Author(s) -
Sugiharto Setiono
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12293
Subject(s) - english as a lingua franca , articulation (sociology) , language policy , negotiation , lingua franca , conceptualization , pedagogy , sociology , foreign language , perspective (graphical) , linguistics , indonesian , political science , social science , computer science , law , philosophy , artificial intelligence , politics
Contemporary perspectives of English as a lingua franca (ELF) vis‐à‐vis its traditional conceptualization have yet to be informed, and made aware to the Indonesian teachers who teach English as a foreign language in Indonesia. While burgeoning current literature on ELF has cast crucial insights into how English needs to be taught in multilingual contexts, the teaching of the language in the country still succumbs to the traditional ELF practices, which view English as a mere monolithic, standard, and international language of global interaction. This article argues that local language teachers need not only be informed about ELF, but also be made ELF‐aware through ELF‐aware teacher education program. This program can assist them in shifting their orientation and conviction to a more dynamic, inclusive, plurilithic and situated perspective of ELF communication. The article then proceeds by envisaging how this ELF awareness can also be raised through teachers' continuous efforts to negotiate the imposed language policy, to create their own spaces for engaging with this policy, and finally to venture into the art of articulation.