Introducing Global Englishes

Evaluating the suitability of teaching EIL for the German classroom

“…Overall, it becomes clear then that EIL-oriented teaching is increasingly relevant in the German context, as German learners need to be adequately prepared to use English in lingua franca contexts, a task that cannot be achieved by a mere adherence to traditional ELT (Galloway & Rose, 2015). Accordingly, they will require English skills that go beyond the mere replication of Standard English forms.…”

“…It further investigates to what extent such an approach can be implemented in Germany based on the curriculum of Germany's most populous state. Both theses phenomena and fields, WE and ELF, are studied under the umbrella term Global Englishes (GE) (Galloway & Rose, 2015). KEYWORDS communicative competence, English as an international language, English as Lingua Franca, English foreign language didactics, English teacher training English hat sich zu einer globalen Sprache entwickelt, von der zahlreiche Varietäten existieren, und die als Lingua Franca weltweit genutzt wird.…”

“…This model portrays and fosters a monolithic view of the language, which is likely to keep students from attaining the communicative skills and competencies necessary to successfully use English in global speech communities (Galloway & Rose, 2015). The native speaker orientation arises from a traditional notion of foreign language teaching, assuming native speakers as target interlocutors.…”

“…Additionally, they include the ability to comprehend diverse native and non-native varieties in written as well as spoken English (Galloway & Rose, 2015). EIL-oriented teachingrelated competence dimensions encompass communication strategies as well as intercultural skills.…”

“…In connection with this, ELF scholars have recently highlighted the necessity for usage-based approaches to grammar, in which the focus is on students' internal construction of language and language norms rather than the replication of an external system (Hall, 2014;Kohn, 2011). This, once more, underlines the need to incorporate ELF communication into the classroom to raise awareness (Seidlhofer, 2004) and develop strategic competence in students (Galloway & Rose, 2015). This, once more, underlines the need to incorporate ELF communication into the classroom to raise awareness (Seidlhofer, 2004) and develop strategic competence in students (Galloway & Rose, 2015).…”