1. ELF7 Pre-conference Event

2. Rooted in a native paradigm

3. Intimations of paradigm insecurity Poland: British Life & Institutions Model for listening Jarek’s skull UK: EAL + textbooks

4. Appropriate methodology & paradigm curiosity SEASPEAK 1959 Close on Moscow conference AIRSPEAK (Tenerife) …. Intelligibility / linguistic engineering Descriptive (not prescriptive) ELF ELF as a culture-free or culture-neutral zone? Adrian Holliday

5. “we are not really talking about English but ‘Globlish’, a communication tool stripped of most of its cultural resonances. Non-native speakers can easily become fluent in Globlish. Maybe they can even speak it better because most are not inhibited by faint memories of the King James’ bible or Hamlet. For them Globlish is a largely a functional language” (Opinion piece by Peter Scott, in the Guardian 6 th May 2014) It’s raining cats and dogs

6. Paradigm Proliferation (post-TEFL) Teaching English …. as a FL, SL, AL, IL, GL, LF, LWC, [language of the enemy, TAVI, …. for SP, S&T, AP, IC, Islamic Purposes [TENOR, TEPE] …. to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Teaching World Englishes Using English as the Medium of Instruction (CLIL)

7. (Some) Implications for TESOL? Cultural and intercultural challenges of ELF?  Linguistic orientation (Common Core)  Intercultural Competence orientation Culture-specific (TEFL) vs culture-general (TEIC)  link between target language & target culture?  developing a languaculture linkage instead  ELF communication in a ‘third space’  MATE / EIC/EIL ….. ELF-based  inclusive / restrictive (L1  L1)

8. Euxaristo richard.fay@manchester.ac.uk