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Nonnative Speaking Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

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With the global expansion of English as an international language (see Block, Language Education and Globalization, Volume 1), another expansion is taking place, that of teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In terms of the numbers of both students and teachers, EFL may well be the most widespread form of teaching and learning English because it embraces all those cases where English is taught and learned outside the inner circle countries where it is an ordinary means of communication and taught as a second language (Kachru and Nelson, 1996).

EFL is taught in both outer circle countries such as India where English has a long history of institutionalized functions, and in expanding circle countries such as China where it is widely studied for specific purposes (Kachru and Nelson, 1996).

In both of these latter kinds of contexts, the demand for EFL teaching is ever growing. The expansion of EFL raises two questions: (i) what are the differences between...

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Tarnopolsky, O. (2008). Nonnative Speaking Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_107

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