ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide a review of the major aspects related to teacher awareness, with special reference to non-native teachers' awareness of English as an International Lingua Franca (ELF). They also provide an account of a hands-on practical approach aimed at introducing teachers in expanding circle countries to the challenges and implications of teaching a global language, thus transforming them into ELF-aware teachers who will be ready to convey such awareness among their students. The authors focus on non-native English-speaking teachers' (NNESTs') awareness of the global properties of ELF. They explore evidence from an on-going project on ELF-aware language teaching to support their suggestions in the light of a new model of transformative teacher education. The authors report NNESTs' perspectives on what they consider to be an ELF-aware lesson, as well as teachers' observations of how successful they were in raising their students' awareness towards ELF.
