This volume examines the role of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in education in Europe. Following the implementation of the Bologna process, English has assumed a central role in European education offering institutions the opportunity to cater to the needs of an internationalized student body and increase their competitiveness. On the other hand, the increased use of ELF has become an issue of concern, often perceived as a threat to other languages, tilting the scale towards linguistic inequality and stressing the urgent need for the development of new language policies. Both aspects of ELF are at the center of discussion in the proposed volume, which consists of a variety of papers examining ELF in different parts of Europe (Eastern, Central and Western) and different levels of education. The volume makes a substantial contribution to the lively and controversial debate about what is recognized as a central topical concern of language education policy in Europe and beyond.

• Series Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: English in Europe: complexities and possibilities
• ELF as an opportunity for foreign language use, learning and instruction in Greece and beyond
• European language policy and English as a lingua franca: a critique of Van Parijs’s ‘linguistic justice’
• Part II: Attitudes toward English as a lingua franca in education
• English language education in Croatia: Elitist purism or paradigmatic shift?
• Attitudes to English as a lingua franca and language teaching in a Bulgarian academic context
• English language teacher education in the Czech Republic: attitudes to ELF
• Part III: English as a lingua franca in higher education
• English as a lingua franca in academic blogs: its co-existence and interaction with other languages
• Multilingual ELF interaction in multicultural student teamwork at Europe’s largest business university
• “Is everything clear so far?” Lecturing in English as a lingua franca
• ELF and linguistic diversity in EAP writing pedagogy: academic biliteracy in doctoral education
• Perceptions towards intercultural communication: military students in a higher education context
• Biographical notes
• Index