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I have been involved in Global TESOL for the last 40 years. I have lived and worked on most continents. Over these four decades, I have witnessed the expansion of English as a subject within state education systems. From being an important subject of study for some secondary and tertiary learners in some countries in the 1970s, English is now a core curriculum subject for learners at primary and secondary level in most countries on Earth. I therefore approached this book with great interest in its perspective on how the global TESOL profession might need to adjust in the 21st century, to make the teaching of English relevant to the needs of (the hundreds of millions of) learners and (millions of) teachers within state education systems worldwide. So how does the book understand Global TESOL today? It sees a world in which the spread of English is an outcome of globalisation. One where the traditional distinctions between English as a native, second, foreign, or additional language have become blurred and where the need is for a new pedagogical focus on English as an International language (EIL). Such a focus recognises that for many learners, learning English is seen as a route to
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- Author
- Wedell, Martin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0346-251X)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)