How can you teach the English language to global English speakers? Can English be taught as an
international language? Is it worth teaching? Isn't it more proper and profitable to learn a
standard variety of English? How realistic and useful is the identification of an EIL ELF
variety? Can an EIL ELF standard be identified? These are some of the questions the present
volume has addressed with the contribution of some of the most qualified scholars in the field
of English linguistics. The book is divided into four sections. The first part deals with the
definition of English as an international language and English as a lingua franca. Section two
takes six different teaching issues into consideration. The third section examines some
learning issues and the last part of the volume debates the relationship between teacher and
student in an English as a lingua franca environment.
