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Insights from ELF and WE in teacher training in Greece and Turkey
Author(s) -
SIFAKIS NICOS C.,
BAYYURT YASEMIN
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12150
Subject(s) - transformative learning , english as a lingua franca , perspective (graphical) , pedagogy , sociology , component (thermodynamics) , teacher education , lingua franca , feature (linguistics) , mathematics education , psychology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , physics , artificial intelligence , thermodynamics
The paper describes a framework for the education of ESOL teachers that is inspired by principles grounded in research on English as a lingua franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE). The essential feature of such a framework is that it involves interested teachers in a critical reorientation of their beliefs toward English language teaching, learning and communication. This transformative framework informs what we call the ‘ELF‐aware’ teacher education component. We then present a framework for a transformative perspective for ELF‐aware and WE‐aware teachers and describe the phases of a teacher education project that attempted to put this framework into practice.