ELT current practices, professional profile and beliefs: exploring implications within a global and ELF-aware perspective

The analysis of the data from the Teachers’ survey has highlighted several aspects of current ELT teachers’ professional profile and personal beliefs that would lead to teachers’ reflection in a moment of global change and in an ELF-aware perspective.The two authors present findings on teachers’ competencies and draw implications related to teaching practices, in an innovative perspective for English language education. In the first part, Cannelli investigates teachers’ experience and views of ICT use in ELT and their willingness to participate in international projects, as eTwinning in order to integrate them in their daily practice. Teachers’ beliefs of the potential value of using digital tools for learning is discussed and teachers’ approach to in-class digital integration within an intercultural and global perspective are discussed. In the second part, Morbiducci focuses on the section of the survey where teachers were asked to define their knowledge and understanding of a series of ELT related notions and technical definitions emerging from recent research studies. She explores teachers’ pre-consolidated beliefs in terms of a renovated teacher/student relationship within a new sociolinguistic perspective.