As stated in the course description, English is now a globalised phenomenon and English is now used by diverse speakers from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds around the globe. It now functions as an international lingua franca and language teachers need to develop an awareness of this new role English plays today. In the last twenty years, there has been an unprecedented increasing internationalisation of the English language. However, despite such changes in the sociolinguistic landscape of the English language, in English Language Teaching (ELT), the native English speaker continues to dominate. The globalisation of English has important ramifications for how English is taught today. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) empirical work, which is rapidly growing, emphasises the pluricentricity of English. It also has important ramifications for ELT and a number of books now include sections or chapters on this topic (