Zoya Proshina

Intercultural Communication has become a very important direction of research and a comparatively new discipline at universities. However, the applicability of this research to the English language teaching in Russian schools still leaves much to be desired, beginning from the goals of language teaching conservatively oriented towards the native speaker only. The presentation will discuss new approaches to ELT resulted from the World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca Paradigms, covering some disputable issues arising in the theories, realistic implementation of the education theories into classroom and real life practice, controversy of prescriptive norms and functional strategies in language use.