Month: February 2015
04 – Questioning the Native English Norm in English Teaching – Jennifer Jenkins
English as a Lingua Franca – ELF – is English as a shared language (usually) between non-native speakers.
As English becomes more and more globalised, we question whether the Native Speaker model should be the goal in the classroom. Prof. Jennifer Jenkins first broached this idea back in 2000 and was met with excitement and resistance.
Masters of TESOL 