1. Teaching Lingua Franca English
Lingua Franca English is the most extensive contemporary use of English worldwide (Seidlhofer)
Like other zeitgeist symbols, English as lingua Franca has been subject to much debate has raised many fears (Mauranen)
There are a repertoire of models for English;
there is no longer one best model (Brown)
Apparent grammatical features of Lingua Franca English are merely errors of learner English (Ranta)

2. This Session Will (May) Cover…
Different Englishes and different ways of conceptualising English
The implications for your students and your teaching
What is European-variety Lingua Franca English?
What might we consider teaching differently?
What should we teach instead?

5. According to Modiano’s EIL model your students may not be speakers of a learner English (an intermediary step on their journey to near native-speaker English), but speakers of a Czech- Variety Lingua Franca English. 1. How many of them do you think would agree with this description? 2. How might or should this impact on your teaching?

6. Which of these sentences might be correct European-Variety Lingua Franca English? 1. Most people would chose video-on-demand over movie rental if the price would be the same. 2. If I would have left in one month, she wouldn’t have fixed it. 3. Democratic states should do this, but in a context where there is multi-party elections. 4. Now you might wonder what is the purpose of cancer cells… 5. …because people really want to understand why do we get cycles. How should we address the problem of whether or not to teach these as correct?

7. Look at the Materials and discuss with your group, What is this lesson about? What is being taught? How useful might it be for your students? What would you do with it? Where could you go from there? What else could you do on this or similar subjects?