The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Foreword

Aya Matsuda

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Ali Fuad Selvi and Nicola Galloway

PART I.

The Global Spread of English as an International Language: Theoretical Considerations

1. Teaching English as a World Language: The Sphinx and its Riddle

Kanavillil Rajagopalan

2. Politics, Ideologies, Values, and Power in English Language Teaching

Anthony J. Liddicoat and Yawen Han

3. Ontologies of English as an International Language

Christopher J. Hall and Rachel Wicaksono

4. World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Teaching English as an International Language

Sarah Buschfeld and Michael Percillier

5. The Multilingual Turn, Language Policy, and English as a ‘World Language’

Stephen May

PART II.

Understanding and Teaching English as an International Language: Major Frameworks and Proposals

6. Teaching English as an International Language

Roby Marlina

7. World Englishes and World Englishes-informed English Language Teaching

James D’Angelo and Marzieh Sadeghpour

8. English as a Lingua Franca and English as a Lingua Franca-aware Pedagogy

Nicos Sifakis and Yasemin Bayyurt

9. Translanguaging Theory, Pedagogies, and Future Directions from the Global South

Kate Seltzer, Shakina Rajendram and Ofelia García

10. Global English(es) Language Teaching: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide and Uniting Calls for Change Through a Broader Paradigm

Nicola Galloway and Heath Rose

PART III.

Teaching and Assessing English as an International Language: Principles and Practices

11. Teaching Materials in English as an International Language: Research and Principles

Zia Tajeddin and Hossein Ali Manzouri

12. Assessing English as an International Language

Jamie Dunlea, Barry O’Sullivan, Mina Patel, Carolyn Westbrook, Sheryl Cooke, Johanna Motteram, Amy Lightfoot, Mariano Felice, Zeynep Karaöz Duran, and Richard Spiby

13. Learner Autonomy and Motivation for English as an International Language

Éva Illés and Mirosław Pawlak

14. Intercultural and Transcultural Awareness for English Language Teaching

Will Baker

15. Curriculum Evaluation and Innovation for Teaching English as an International Language

Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, and Nicola Galloway

PART IV.

Teaching English as an International Language: Innovative Approaches and Practices

16. Digital Education in Teaching English as an International Language

Ju Seong Lee and Jolanta Hudson

17. Online Communities of Practice in Teaching English as an International Language

Natsuno Funada and Xiaowen (Serina) Xie

18. Corpora in Teaching English as an International Language

Sandra Götz

19. The Intersection of Literature and English as an International Language

Amos Paran and Ruanni Tupas

PART V.

Teaching English as an International Language: Diverse Teaching Settings and Populations

20. Content and Language Integrated Learning and Teaching English as an International Language

Julia Hüttner and Ute Smit

21. English as an International Language in English-Medium Education

Kari Sahan

22. Teaching English as an International Language for Global Citizenship

Manfred Man-fat Wu, Ricardo Römhild and Mona Nishizaki

23. Teaching English as an International Language to Young Learners

Yuko Goto Butler

24. Antiracist and Decolonial Perspectives of Teaching English as an International Language: Theory and Enactment

Ryuko Kubota

PART VI.

Preparing Teachers to Teach English as an International Language: Principles, Practices, and Prospects

25. Principles and Practices of English as an International Language Teacher Education

Lucilla Lopriore and Paola Vettorel

26. A Critical Cosmopolitan Understanding of English as an International Language Teacher Identity

Adrian Holliday

27. A Critical Translanguaging Approach to Re-envisioning English as an International Language Teacher Education for 21st-Century English Language Teaching

Christina M. Ponzio and Matthew R. Deroo

28. Decentring and Decolonizing English Language Teacher Associations

Gabriel Diaz Maggioli, Beatrix Price and Aleksandra Popovski Golubovikj

PART VII.

English as an International Language Research: Developments and Directions

29. Research Directions and Methodological Approaches in English as an International Language

Alex Baratta, Rui He and Paul Vincent Smith

30. Facilitating Research-Pedagogy Dialogue in English as an International Language

Dustin Crowther and Jeffrey Maloney

31. Language Learning in the Age of Global English: A 21st-century Research Agenda

Ursula Lanvers

32. A Research Agenda for English as an International Language, Social Justice Education and Multilingual Pedagogies

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Md. Sadequle Islam

33. Looking Ahead: Current Trends and Future Directions in English as an International Language Research

Ali Fuad Selvi and Jim McKinley

Index

Biography

Ali Fuad Selvi is an assistant professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics in the MA TESOL Program in the Department of English at the University of Alabama, USA. He co-authored Teaching English as an International Language (2013) and Teaching English as an International Language (2024).

Nicola Galloway is a senior lecturer and publications lead in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. She set up and directs the Education, Languages and Internationalisation network (ELINET). She is author of Global Englishes and English Language Teaching: Attitudes and Impact (2017) and co-author of Introducing Global Englishes (2015, 2025), Teaching English as an International Language (2023), and Global Englishes for Language Teaching (2019).

This new addition to the Routledge Handbooks series is one of its most adventurous. Not only does this volume cover an impressively wide range of themes both conceptual and practical, including some topics rarely if ever treated previously, but its contributors come from a broad range of geographical and scholarly backgrounds. The volume’s extensive diversity thus ensures its substantial relevance to linguistics researchers and students right around the globe.

Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton, UK

This wonderfully comprehensive Handbook is essential reading for all those who wish or need to know anything, something, or indeed everything about the theories and practices connected with the development and teaching of English as an international language. It will become the benchmark publication in the field.

Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University, Australia

Spanning from theoretical foundations to classroom methodologies, this seminal handbook provides a systematic and insightful overview of EIL education, with contributions from leading scholars in the field. This is truly an epoch-making publication, as the first comprehensive coverage of TEIL half a century after the birth of the concept of EIL.

Nobuyuki Hino, Osaka University & Otemon Gakuin University, Japan