Nicos Sifakis

Biographic Data

ID4621427
NAMENicos Sifakis
GIVEN NAMESNicos
FAMILY NAMESifakis
SIGNATURESIFAKIS N
AFFILIATIONSHellenic Open University
ORCID0000-0001-5242-660X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Situating Reflection Within ELF Awareness

    Open AccessNicos Sifakis, Stefania KordiaARTICLETESOL Quarterly2025References: 16

    Critical reflection is, without doubt, the single most important component of the ELF (English as a lingua franca) awareness framework. ELF awareness has been proposed (Sifakis, 2019; Sifakis & Bayyurt, 2018) as a comprehensive way of incorporating ELF-related issues and concerns in different English language teaching contexts. As these contexts are vastly diverse, and as ELF itself is not a variety of English that can be “taught” to nonnative sp…

  • Developing ELF research for critical language education

    Open AccessAlessia Cogo, Fan Fang et al.ARTICLEAILA Review2021

    Research in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), that is the medium of communication between people who come from different linguacultural backgrounds, has created a rich body of work in various areas. This article focuses on a more recent development of this research for teachers and teacher educators in the perspective of critical language education (CLE). We explore how ELF research, both the linguistic/discourse-oriented one and the pedagogic-or…

  • ELF Awareness in English Language Teaching

    Open AccessNicos C Sifakis, Nicos SifakisARTICLEApplied Linguistics2019

    The article proposes a framework for integrating English as a lingua franca (ELF) research in English language teaching (ELT), predominantly pedagogy, but also teacher education, materials development and evaluation, policy design and planning, assessment and testing. The main concept here is ELF awareness, which orientates a set of principles that refer to the knowledge, attitudes, and skillset of ELT stakeholders and ELT products with regard to…

  • Insights from ELF and WE in teacher training in Greece and Turkey

    Open AccessNicos C Sifakis, Nicos Sifakis et al.ARTICLEWorld Englishes2015Cited by: 7References: 32

    The paper describes a framework for the education of ESOL teachers that is inspired by principles grounded in research on English as a lingua franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE). The essential feature of such a framework is that it involves interested teachers in a critical reorientation of their beliefs toward English language teaching, learning and communication. This transformative framework informs what we call the 'ELF-aware' teacher educa…

  • EFL course book evaluation in Greek primary schools

    Open AccessDina Tsagari, Nicos C Sifakis et al.ARTICLESystem2014Cited by: 2References: 1

  • The education of teachers of English as a lingua franca

    Open AccessNicos SifakisARTICLEInternational Journal of Applied…2007Cited by: 9References: 19

  • Pronunciation Issues and EIL Pedagogy in the Periphery

    Nicos C Sifakis, Nicos Sifakis et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly2005Cited by: 13

    Nicos C. Sifakis, Areti-Maria Sougari, Pronunciation Issues and EIL Pedagogy in the Periphery: A Survey of Greek State School Teachers' Beliefs, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 467-488

  • Teaching EIL—Teaching International or Intercultural English? What Teachers Should Know

    Open AccessNicos C Sifakis, Nicos SifakisARTICLESystem2004Cited by: 13References: 8