"This book is a guide to understanding and applying the essential, heretofore elusive notion of context in language study and pedagogy: Éva Illés offers a new, critical, systematic theoretical framework, then applies that framework to practical interactions and issues in communicative language teaching rooted in English as a Lingua Franca. By linking theory and practice for research and teaching around the world, this book brings a new awareness of how context can be conceptualized and related to language pedagogy to advanced students, teachers, teacher educators, and researchers of language teaching, applied linguistics, and pragmatics"-- Provided by publisher.

1. Context, ELF and language pedagogy --2. Cursory definitions of context -- 3. Perspectives on context -- 4. Synthesis: Context in language use -- 5. Context in language teaching -- 6. Context in ELF -- 7. Towards an ELF-informed approach to ELT -- 8. Implementation of an ELF-informed approach to ELT -- List of figures and tables.