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Enriching the University ELT Curriculum with Insights from ELF

“…To date, systematic attention has been paid to the underlying reasons and processes that are shaping ELF and to how they can act as a springboard for reflecting on the pedagogic aims of teaching English (Vettorel 2015, 4). Accordingly, a large body of ELF studies have focused on its implications on ELT (Alsagoff et al 2012;Matsuda and Friedrich 2012;Vettorel and Lopriore 2013;Bayyurt and Akcan 2014;Lopriore 2014;Sifakis 2014;Ehrenreich and Pitzl 2015;Vettorel 2015 2 ). Teacher education has become one of the main interests for ELF research, as it is generally agreed that the process of introducing (or not introducing) ELF into ELT begins with teachers and therefore with teachers' education (Dewey 2012).…”