Inspiring Pre-service English Language Teachers to Become ELF-aware

As English as a lingua franca (ELF) continues its global expansion, the need to deal with related pedagogical questions becomes more urgent. Although there have been some studies on ELF-aware students, is also for inspiring teachers, especially at pre-service stage so that they begin their professional lives an mindset. The study reported here aimed explore views of group teachers ( N = 24) after exposure variety awareness-raising tasks. Data gathered by interviews and questionnaire suggested good seven main characteristics: give less value error correction intelligibility, respect linguistic cultural identity, are open-minded, tolerant, willing allow choice, realistic about language use in real world. These characteristics exemplified discussed, recommendations made on-going development teacher.