For all EFL teachers wishing to embark on an international career, this book examines the traditional over-focus on Anglophone culture in English language teaching (ELT). Mainstream methodology and course content tend to assume that learners’ main objectives are to communicate in an Anglophone country with native speakers. Times have changed. Nowadays, most English language communications actually occur as a lingua franca between non-native speakers. Teacher-training courses and EFL course content neglect this changed nature of ELT. This potentially leaves teachers underprepared for the fact that the actual needs of their students may not necessarily include all things Anglophone. The book aims to raise awareness of the cultural bias that continues to exist in ELT. It offers an approach which includes content and methodology which rebalances cultural content to include more localised and multicultural context. It considers the skills needed by contemporary learners whose motivation is to interact interculturally with both native and non-native speakers of the language.
