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The education of teachers of English as a lingua franca: a transformative perspective
Author(s) -
Sifakis Nicos
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1473-4192.2007.00174.x
Subject(s) - transformative learning , sociology , humanism , media studies , pedagogy , humanities , theology , philosophy
The article responds to the emerging need for a general framework forELF (English as a lingua franca) teacher education that would appropriatelyinform and sensitize ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) practi-tioners about ELF teaching matters. The teacher education model put forwardis based on the transformative framework for adult education suggested byMezirow and has five phases. The framework aims at bringing about themuch-needed paradigm shift in postmodern ESOL pedagogy by transform-ing ESOL teachers’ worldviews about English and English language pedagogyand empowering them in bringing about the necessary changes in their ownteaching context.