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

    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 around the world, this book brings a new awareness of how context can be conceptualised and related to language pedagogy to advanced students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers of language teaching, applied linguistics and pragmatics.

    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.