Popular approaches to EAL instruction: teaching English as an international language pedagogy

The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has had massive implications on approaches to EAL (English as an additional language) instruction. While notions of preparing students to join a native English-speaking community have underpinned traditional EAL instruction, this is no longer true of instructional goals in today's globalized world. Nowadays, students are learning English to use in diverse global communities of practice, where the language is used as the main lingua franca. Research in the interrelated fields of EIL, World Englishes, Global Englishes, and English as a lingua franca have been influential in shifting approaches to EAL instruction to better prepare students for their new needs. There is currently a paradigm shift in English language teaching, where a number of dimensions are changing, including teaching approaches, language norms, cultures, teachers, models, and target interlocutors in EAL classrooms