@inbook {38577, title = {Raising teachers{\textquoteright} awareness about English and English as a lingua franca.}, booktitle = {Peter Garrett and Josep M. Cots (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness.}, year = {2018}, pages = {155-169}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, abstract = {In this chapter, we will provide a review of the major aspects related to teacher
awareness, with special reference to non- native teachers{\textquoteright} awareness of English as an\ International Lingua Franca (ELF), and will then provide an account of a hands on\ practical approach aimed at introducing teachers in Expanding Circle countries\ (Kachru, 1985 ) to the challenges and implications of teaching a global language, thus\ transforming them into ELF- aware teachers who will be ready to convey such awareness\ among their students. We will focus on non- native English- speaking teachers{\textquoteright}\ (NNESTs{\textquoteright}) awareness of the global properties of ELF. In order to support our suggestions\ in the light of a new model of transformative teacher education (Sifakis, 2007,\ 2014), we provide evidence from an on- going project on ELF- aware language teaching, and we report NNESTs{\textquoteright} perspectives on what they consider to be an ELF- aware lesson, as well as teachers{\textquoteright} observations of how successful they were in raising their students{\textquoteright} awareness towards ELF (Bayyurt and Sifakis, 2015a , 2015b; Sifakis, 2014 ; Sifakis and Bayyurt, 2015).}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Awareness/Garrett-Cots/p/book/9781032402079}, author = {Enric Llurda and Yasemin Bayyurt and Nicos Sifakis} }