1st Edition

Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching An ELF Perspective

By Éva Illés Copyright 2020
162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a guide to understanding and applying the essential, heretofore elusive, notion of context in language study and pedagogy. Éva Illés offers a new, critical, systematic theoretical framework, then applies that framework to practical interactions and issues in communicative language teaching rooted in English as a Lingua Franca. By linking theory and practice for research and teaching... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1.  Context, ELF and Language Pedagogy

2.  Cursory Definitions of Context

3.  Perspectives on Context

4. Synthesis: Context in Language Use

5. Context in Language Teaching

6.  Context in ELF

7. Towards an ELF-Informed Approach to ELT

8. Implementation of an ELF-Informed Approach to ELT

Index

Biography

Éva Illés is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.