Inspiring Pre-service English Language Teachers to Become ELF-aware

SORUÇ A., Griffiths C.

RELC Journal, cilt.54, sa.3, ss.603-615, 2023 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 54 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/00336882211001966
  • Dergi Adı: RELC Journal
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.603-615
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: ELF, ELF-aware teacher, English as lingua franca, pre-service English teacher
  • Samsun Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

As English as a lingua franca (ELF) continues its global expansion, the need to deal with related pedagogical questions becomes more urgent. Although there have been some studies on ELF-aware students, there is also a need for inspiring ELF-aware teachers, especially at the pre-service stage so that they begin their professional lives with an ELF-aware mindset. The study reported here aimed to explore the views of a group of pre-service teachers (N = 24) after exposure to a variety of awareness-raising tasks. Data gathered by interviews and a questionnaire suggested that good ELF-aware teachers have seven main characteristics: they give less value to error correction and more to intelligibility, they respect linguistic and cultural identity, and they are open-minded, tolerant, willing to allow choice, and realistic about language use in the real world. These characteristics are exemplified and discussed, and recommendations are made for on-going development of the ELF-aware teacher.