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  1. 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...

    teachingenglish.org.uk/publica
    - teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/t

    #DavidGraddol #EnglishNext #DesignForFailure #TEFL
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  2. “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?”
    - elgazette.com/david-graddol-th

    #EFL #DavidGraddol #EnglishNext #NativeSpeakers #EPGDM #OgdensBasicEnglish #IaR #IaRichards #FutureOfEnglish