EIL, ELF, Global English: Teaching and Learning Issues

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Contents: Cesare Gagliardi: Introduction - Alan Maley: The Reality of EIL and the Myth of ELF - Giuseppe G. Castorina: Plain English, Euroenglish and the Fight the FOG Campaign - Lucilla Lopriore: World Englishes and Language Teacher Education in a World in Migration: A Shift in Perspective - Sharon Hartle: Teaching English at the Heart of the Expanding Circle - Nancy Rose Steinbock: Moving from Theory to Active Strategies in the Classroom: 'Language Intervention' as a Dynamic Teaching Model - Stefania Taviano: English as an International Language and the Pedagogy of Translation - Steve Buckledee: Global English and ELT Coursebooks - Paola Vettorel: EIL / ELF and Representation of Culture in Textbooks: Only Food, Fairs, Folklore and Facts? - Enrico Grazzi: Language Transfer Revisited. The Global English Perspective and its Pedagogic Implications - Maria Grazia Busa: Effects of L1 on L2 Pronunciation: Italian Prosody in English - Rafael Monroy-Casas: The Teachability-intelligibility Issue: Vowel Length in GlobEnglish - Kyria Finardi: Information Processing Theory Issues Permeating Working Memory Capacity and L2 Speech Performance and Acquisition - Rongcai Yang: Transformation of Thinking in Chinese Students' Learning of English Vocabulary - Luciana Pedrazzini/Andrea Nava: The ELF of English Language Teachers - Nicos C. Sifakis/Areti-Maria Sougari: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: An Investigation of EFL Teachers' Beliefs on what Keeps them from Integrating Global English in their Classrooms - Mustafa Zulkuf Altan: ELT Major University Students' Beliefs on the Role of English, Globalization and Global English - Vanessa Leonardi: 'Do you speak English' or 'Speak (you) English'? The Impact of Non-native Varieties on English Language Teaching - Anna Zanfei: Revisiting the Can-Do statements According to the Use of English in International Context.