English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education : A Brazilian Perspective

A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.

"This book is truly a huge and enlightening contributions from Latin America. The discussions are robust and the methodologies adopted are novel. This contribution is a clarion call to the Brazilian government and educators on the need to detach from a traditional pedagogical style that is at variance with the modern world, engender an EFL-compliant traditional method, and by all means, forge ahead with the rest of the world to embrace and promote the principles of ELF. I do hope that this will not be the first and the last contributions from this great country; and it is equally my hope that other Latin American countries will imitate Brazil in lending their voices to the debate on ELF."
Ezekiel Bolaji in: LINGUIST List 30.2087