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This book provides the reader with a basis upon which to develop teaching and learning methodologies for the multicultural classroom. It is a valuable tool for language teachers who want to implement educational practices that best serve the needs of learners eager to acquire proficiency in languages of wider communication such as English. Focusing on cross-cultural communicative competency, and with chapters on the historical spread of English, the pros and cons of utilizing American and British norms, and new alternative methods and practices, this book provides English instructors with the foundation they will need to meet the challenges of teaching a lingua franca in the age of globalization. Novel conceptualizations of language are presented which bring pluralism and multiculturalism center stage. The volume serves to show how teachers and teacher trainees can best assist learners in their pursuit of oral communication skills in the world's most utilitarian language.

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Professor Marko Modiano works at Gävle University, Sweden, where he conducts research on the global spread of English, European English, standards for the teaching of English, the relationship between language learning and identity, and pedagogical approaches to teaching in multicultural classrooms. The author of numerous books and articles, he has gained international notoriety for his study of how Brexit will influence the future of English in the EU. The main focus of his research, however, is the emergence of English as an International Language and the implications of globalization for language learning, and his paradigm for a global rendition of English, the Centripetal Circles of English as an International Language, has been much discussed over the years.

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