<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nicos Sifakis</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;ELF as an opportunity for foreign language use, learning and instruction in Greece and beyond.&lt;/span&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Z. Tatsioka, B. Seidlhofer, N. Sifakis &amp; F. Gibson (Eds.), Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe. English in Europe: Volume 4.</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501503115-002/html</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mouton De Gruyter</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berlin/Boston</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13-27</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;The chapter focuses on the challenges and opportunities raised by the&amp;nbsp;growing awareness of the role that English as a lingua franca (ELF) can play in&amp;nbsp;Expanding Circle contexts, namely, contexts where English does not have a historical&amp;nbsp;or statutory role of any kind. The context under review is Greece, where&amp;nbsp;English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). I present an account of the English&amp;nbsp;language teaching, learning and use situation in Greece and reflect on the impact&amp;nbsp;ELF can have for domains like language instruction, materials design, selection&amp;nbsp;and evaluation and teacher education. I argue that ELF research can inform EFL&amp;nbsp;contexts in a number of ways: It can be used to empower non-native speakers&amp;nbsp;of English by broadening their perspective of communicating on a global scale&amp;nbsp;in the 21st century. It can also be used as a means of teacher development. The&amp;nbsp;essential element that underpins this perspective is that, for Expanding Circle&amp;nbsp;contexts like the Greek one, English is not a foreign language (in the way that&amp;nbsp;other major languages like French and German are), but a language with which&amp;nbsp;learners have some degree of familiarity.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>