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Exploring Cultural Aspects in the Post-TEFL Era

Analysing the impact of post-TEFL era on intercultural communication with focus on ELF, World Englishes & CLIL. Richard Fay's critical insights. Contact richard.fay@manchester.ac.uk for inquiries.

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Exploring Cultural Aspects in the Post-TEFL Era

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  1. ELF7 Pre-conference Event Some cultural and intercultural aspects of the post-TEFL era Richard Fay The University of Manchester Athens, May 8th, 2014

  2. Rooted in a native paradigm • Being ‘Pierre’ • Cert TEFL, Dip TEFLA • EFL summer schools Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language …. learning (modern, standard) Spanish from a native-speaker of (Castillian) Spanish …. as explicitly linked to Spanish culture (singular!) …. in preparation for me to use these Spanish linguistic-cultural resources in interaction with Spaniards (Spanish artefacts) …. and do so typically in Spain. -------------- and ready to be examined vis-à-vis Spanish NS norms

  3. Intimations of paradigm insecurity • Poland: British Life & Institutions Model for listening Jarek’s skull • UK: EAL + textbooks

  4. Appropriate methodology & paradigm curiosity • SEASPEAK • 1959 Close on Moscow conference • AIRSPEAK (Tenerife) • …. Intelligibility / linguistic engineering • Descriptive (not prescriptive) ELF • ELF as a culture-free or culture-neutral zone? Adrian Holliday

  5. “we are not really talking about English but ‘Globlish’, a communication tool stripped of most of its cultural resonances. Non-native speakers can easily become fluent in Globlish. Maybe they can even speak it better because most are not inhibited by faint memories of the King James’ bible or Hamlet. For them Globlish is a largely a functional language” (Opinion piece by Peter Scott, in the Guardian 6th May 2014) It’s raining cats and dogs

  6. Paradigm Proliferation (post-TEFL) Teaching English …. as a FL, SL, AL, IL, GL, LF, LWC, [language of the enemy, TAVI, …. for SP, S&T, AP, IC, Islamic Purposes [TENOR, TEPE] …. to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) • Teaching World Englishes • Using English as the Medium of Instruction (CLIL)

  7. (Some) Implications for TESOL? • Cultural and intercultural challenges of ELF?  Linguistic orientation (Common Core)  Intercultural Competence orientation • Culture-specific (TEFL) vs culture-general (TEIC)  link between target language & target culture?  developing a languaculture linkage instead  ELF communication in a ‘third space’  MATE / EIC/EIL ….. ELF-based  inclusive / restrictive (L1  L1)

  8. Euxaristo richard.fay@manchester.ac.uk

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