ELF and teacher education: Attitudes and beliefs

TY - JOUR

T1 - ELF and teacher education

T2 - Attitudes and beliefs

AU - Dewey, Martin

AU - Pineda, Inmaculada

PY - 2020/10/1

Y1 - 2020/10/1

N2 - The growing relevance of research in English as a lingua franca (ELF) for ELT has led to a need to rethink the way we approach English in the language classroom and to reassess how we configure knowledge about language in teacher education. This article reports on a joint project initiated in 2017 at King's College London (UK) and the University of Malaga (Spain), exploring the value of perceptions towards language and ELF among language teachers. Our goal was to promote reflective attitudes towards linguistic diversity, language change and the potential impact of ELF on developments in ELT. We present here the results of an online survey that participants took after only two sessions into their training. Our findings link ELT practitioners' teaching priorities to an ELF orientation because there was a higher number of participants who aligned with statements about pedagogic approaches where successful communication is emphasized above accuracy (42/72), and statements that favour fostering experimentation with linguistic forms (53/72) and promoting students' L1 sociocultural identity (54/72).

AB - The growing relevance of research in English as a lingua franca (ELF) for ELT has led to a need to rethink the way we approach English in the language classroom and to reassess how we configure knowledge about language in teacher education. This article reports on a joint project initiated in 2017 at King's College London (UK) and the University of Malaga (Spain), exploring the value of perceptions towards language and ELF among language teachers. Our goal was to promote reflective attitudes towards linguistic diversity, language change and the potential impact of ELF on developments in ELT. We present here the results of an online survey that participants took after only two sessions into their training. Our findings link ELT practitioners' teaching priorities to an ELF orientation because there was a higher number of participants who aligned with statements about pedagogic approaches where successful communication is emphasized above accuracy (42/72), and statements that favour fostering experimentation with linguistic forms (53/72) and promoting students' L1 sociocultural identity (54/72).

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099690604&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/elt/ccaa047

DO - 10.1093/elt/ccaa047

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85099690604

SN - 0951-0893

VL - 74

SP - 428

EP - 441

JO - ELT JOURNAL

JF - ELT JOURNAL

IS - 4

ER -