Changing English, Changing Teaching

ANDY COWLE

Changing English, Changing Teaching

www.eltconnections.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s

Language Change

- How are you?

- I’m good• Chris’ book

Chris’s book

• literally

• singular they

Language Change: Progress or Decay

Jean Aitchison

Trade

Diplomacy

Travel

Technology

Medicine

Science

Internet

Popular music

Global English

Native speakers

400 million

ESL

800 million

Learners

1 billion

Global English in numbers

World Englishes

English at school

David Graddol

www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/english-next

Learning English

Purpose?

Function?

Travel

Study

Work

Integrate

Connect

English usage

• Leaner probably learning English in his/her own country

• Generic model

EFL

ESL

• Integration in a country where English is L1

• Generic model + localisation

English usage

ELF

English as a Lingua Franca

“A language that is adopted as a common language between

speakers whose native languages are different.”

Oxford English Dictionary

• not a variety of English

• an attitude

• function vs form

• essential research

Rest of the World

English-speaking world

Who owns English?

http://bit.ly/2EZE9FE

“…if we devoted more time

and energy to teaching the

learner, and less to teaching

the language, we might be

better off.”

https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/e-is-for-elf/

Scott Thornbury (A-Z of ELT)

Scott Thornbury

“And even if it’s the case that the

bar has been lowered, isn’t it more

realistic to make intelligibility your

goal rather than the (virtually un-

achievable) goal of native-like

accuracy (whatever that is)?”

Scott Thornbury

https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/e-is-for-elf-and-the-phonological-core/

Scott Thornbury (A-Z of ELT)

David Crystalhttp://bit.ly/2Hkpjbv

www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf

VOICES Magazine

Jennifer Jenkins

Lingua Franca Core (LFC)

• communication breakdown

• data on pronunciation features

• list of pronunciation priorities in ELF

Robin Walker

Teaching the Pronunciation of ELF

• language variation

• questions assumptions of NS target

• learner strategies – pronunciation, listening

www.modernenglishteacher.com

www.elfpron.wordpress.com

John Field

Sheila Thorn

Ian Badger

Evan Frendo

www.modernenglishteacher.com

Listening

Authentic Listening

• Not a model

• Exposure

• Strategies for reality

• Widely available

• Podcasts

www.bbc.co.uk/radio

www.univie.ac.at/voice

www.dialectsarchive.com

https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices

Archives: global English varieties

www.degruyter.com/view/j/jelf

www.english-lingua-franca.org

ELF conferences / event themes

Equality for Non-NESTs

www.teflequityadvocates.com

Peter Medgyes

NEST vs non-NEST

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXB7-BBXtQ&t=7s

www.etprofessional.com/5-reasons-why-native-speakers-need-to-learn-to-speak-english-internationally

1. English is a skill not a subject

2. Embrace change and reality

3. Find out more - and often

4. Classroom practice

5. Learners’ needs

What now, Andy?

Andy Cowle

@andycowle

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