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ELF-awareness in ELT: Bringing together theory and practice

• Nicos C. Sifakis

  Nicos C. Sifakis is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University and director of its MEd in TESOL programme. He holds a PhD in language and linguistics from the University of Essex, UK. He has published extensively on teaching and researching English as an international lingua franca, language teaching methodology, distance education, adult education and teacher education. He is editor-in-chief of Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning.

  , Lucilla Lopriore

  Lucilla Lopriore, Associate Professor, Roma Tre University. MA TEFL, Reading, UK. PhD, Italian L2, Siena University. TESOL International Board of Directors (2001–2004), TESOL International Research Professional Council (Chair), ELLiE (Early Language Learning in Europe) Project Italian coordinator (2006–2010). Qualified as Language Teacher Educator (Norwich, UK; San Francisco State, USA). Course-book writer, her current fields of interest are ELF, Teacher Education, CLIL, Assessment, Early Language Learning. She has published extensively in these fields.

  , Martin Dewey

  Martin Dewey is Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, where he is programme director for an MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT. His research focuses on the relationship between language and globalization, investigating in particular the nature and role of English as a lingua franca. He is especially interested in exploring the impact of ELF on English language teacher perceptions and practices. He has presented and published widely on this work.

  , Yasemin Bayyurt

  Yasemin Bayyurt is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from Lancaster University. Her current research focuses on ELF awareness in English language teaching and learning, mobile/blended learning, CLIL, intercultural communication. Her publications include articles in international refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes. Recently she co-edited the book Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca (De Gruyter 2015).

  , Paola Vettorel

  Paola Vettorel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona. Her main research interests include ELF and its implications in ELT. Among her recent publications: ELF in Wider Networking. Blogging practices (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2014); editor of New Frontiers in Teaching and Learning English (Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2015); “WE- and ELF-informed classroom practices: proposals from a pre-service teacher education programme in Italy,” JELF 5/1 (2016): 107–133.

  , Lili Cavalheiro

  Lili Cavalheiro holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where she is also Assistant Professor. She is involved in the Master’s in English Language Teaching at the university, where she is likewise a researcher at ULICES – the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. Her research interests include English as a Lingua Franca, English Language Teaching, Teacher Education and Materials Development.

  , Domingos Sávio Pimentel Siqueira

  Sávio Siqueira is Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Bahia Federal University, Department of Germanic Languages, Salvador, Brazil. He researches and publishes on sociolinguistics and its relationship to English language teaching.

  and Stefania Kordia

  Stefania Kordia is a PhD candidate at the Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece, investigating the transformative potential of ELF-aware teacher education. She has been teaching English in various areas in Greece for approximately 13 years and, in 2015–2016, she developed and delivered an ELF-aware teacher development programme (“ELF-GATE”) offered by HOU and the Panhellenic Association of Adult Education.