ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an activity carried out with the incoming pre-service language teachers at a teacher education program in a Turkish university. The activity involves the use of various audio and video-mediated resources for listening purposes alongside some teacher-selected coursebooks for listening and speaking in and out of the classroom with an attempt to make students aware of the Global Englishes (GE) paradigm and enable them to be reflective on current normative convictions and practices in ELT pedagogy as well as their own convictions and practices as users and soon-to-be teachers of English. With the help of a pre-course and a post-course questionnaire component, which attempts to track the changes in students’ convictions and aspired practices as to using and teaching English, the activity proves itself relatively worthwhile for assisting pre-service language teachers to gain an increased GE-awareness with an appreciation of linguistic diversity in listening classes. The activity also contributes to pre-service language teachers’ willingness to take transformative and reflective actions in their practices in line with the realities of the English language, its speaker profile and divergent yet successful uses by ethnolinguistically different speakers in international communication.
