Dr. Nicola Galloway

Dr. Galloway will talk about the growing importance of Global Englishes (GE) as a research paradigm that has important ramifications for English Language Teaching (ELT). Recent years have seen an increased interest in the pedagogic implications of the spread of English. There is a growing literature on the topic and several proposals have also been put forward for a change in ELT (cf. Author and Author, 2014). However, as Saraceni (2009, p. 177) notes, “the volume of such academic attention does not seem to have had a tangible impact on actual classroom reality”. Despite the increasing emphasis being placed on the pedagogical implications at the theoretical level, ELT remains largely unchanged, proposals for change have also met severe criticism, and there is a lack of research at the practical level.