Language teacher education within an ELF aware approach: teachers’ responses from multilingual contexts

This paper presents some of the implications of teaching English within a scenario where new language contacts are modifying it. Among the changes English language has been recently undergoing, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), is the most widely used form of plurilithic communication adopted by people from different language backgrounds. This new condition requires revisiting English language teaching and teacher education focusing on those changes pivotal in learners’ language capability development in multilingual contexts. An ELF awareness reflective approach adopted within an English language teacher education course, its pedagogical implications and teachers’ responses are presented and discussed.