This article reviews the recent literature on English as an International Language (EIL),
taking into consideration the main implications of such literature for English language …

A lot of attention has been devoted in the last 30 years to understanding nativeness and
what has traditionally been called non-nativeness. While many studies have attempted to …

Introducing Global Englishes provides comprehensive coverage of relevant research in the
fields of World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and English as an International …

According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are
nonnative speakers of the language. The nonnative speaker movement began a decade …

This book discusses cognitive and psycholinguistic aspects of third language acquisition
and trilingualism, and explores the key role of linguistic awareness in multilingual …

Although the majority of English language teachers worldwide are non-native English
speakers, no research was conducted on these teachers until recently. After the pioneering …

The English language teaching industry in East and Southeast Asia subscribes to an
assumption that native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) are the gold standard of spoken …

Both native and nonnative language teachers often find pronunciation a difficult skill to teach
because of inadequate training or uncertainty about the effectiveness of instruction. But …

Parallel to the growing recognition of English as an international language, the fundamental
premises of the TESOL discipline (eg, the ownership of the language, native speakers as a …

The Native English Teachers (NETs) Scheme has been in place for over 20 years in
secondary schools in Hong Kong and yet how students perceive these teachers is under …