Teaching English as a Lingua Franca: The Journey from EFL to ELF

In his plenary address at the 37th AEDEAN Conference back in 2013, Martin Dewey loosed a comment on the room that really stuck in my mind. It was high time, he suggested, for English as a lingua franca (ELF) to move from implication to application (see Dewey 2014). I loved the simplicity of his appeal and couldn’t doubt its sincerity; Dewey has been involved in ELF research since before it became known as ELF, and is also involved in language...