bs2 · @bsmall2
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David Graddol provide more motivation to focus on a direct, simple approach to low-burden widely-useful English for "NonElite" learners.
> . Within traditional EFL methodology there is an inbuilt ideological positioning of the student as outsider and failure – however proficient they become...

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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“Large numbers of people will learn English as a foreign language in the 21st century, and they will need teachers, dictionaries and grammar books. But will they continue to look towards the native speaker for authoritative norms of usage?”
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