@inbook {38576,
	title = {<span style="color: $\#$222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ELF as an opportunity for foreign language use, learning and instruction in Greece and beyond.</span>},
	booktitle = {Z. Tatsioka, B. Seidlhofer, N. Sifakis \& F. Gibson (Eds.), Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe. English in Europe: Volume 4.},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {13-27},
	publisher = {Mouton De Gruyter},
	organization = {Mouton De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin/Boston},
	abstract = {<p class="p1">The chapter focuses on the challenges and opportunities raised by the\&nbsp;growing awareness of the role that English as a lingua franca (ELF) can play in\&nbsp;Expanding Circle contexts, namely, contexts where English does not have a historical\&nbsp;or statutory role of any kind. The context under review is Greece, where\&nbsp;English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). I present an account of the English\&nbsp;language teaching, learning and use situation in Greece and reflect on the impact\&nbsp;ELF can have for domains like language instruction, materials design, selection\&nbsp;and evaluation and teacher education. I argue that ELF research can inform EFL\&nbsp;contexts in a number of ways: It can be used to empower non-native speakers\&nbsp;of English by broadening their perspective of communicating on a global scale\&nbsp;in the 21st century. It can also be used as a means of teacher development. The\&nbsp;essential element that underpins this perspective is that, for Expanding Circle\&nbsp;contexts like the Greek one, English is not a foreign language (in the way that\&nbsp;other major languages like French and German are), but a language with which\&nbsp;learners have some degree of familiarity.</p>},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501503115-002/html},
	author = {Nicos Sifakis}
}
