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Linguistic studies on the pedagogical aspects of ELF in professional and business contexts has largely focused on ‘white collar’ workplace settings and BELF. In this chapter I discuss the pedagogical aspects of EIL since they are appropriate for teaching domestic workers and ELF speakers within a local, domestic labour context among Portuguese and Spanish-speaking domestics and their Anglophone clients in a multilingual cleaning company in New Jersey, U.S. This project is situated within a broader theoretical framework of mobilities and globalization within the 21st century (Urry 2000; Adey 2010; Kramsch 2014) and concerned with the ‘consequences of globalization’ (Bauman 1998) and the ‘turbulence of modern migration’ (Papastergiadis 2000), both of which point to transient and dynamic individuals and the complexity of language learning and use of the target language, English.
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Gonçalves, K. (2015). The Pedagogical Implications of ELF in a Domestic Migrant Workplace. In: Bowles, H., Cogo, A. (eds) International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398093_8
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