About us

Jenny Jenkins

Co-deputy director

Jennifer Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Global Englishes, began researching ELF in 1989 for her PhD after observing how her international students used English when communicating among themselves. Her first monograph, The Phonology of English as a Lingua Franca (Oxford 2000), focused on accents and the ways in which ELF users accommodated accent-wise to each other. This was followed by English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity (Oxford 2007) which explored ELF more broadly. Her research focus then turned to English language policy in higher education, and EMI specifically, resulting in English as a Lingua Franca in the International University. The politics of academic English language policy (Routledge 2014). She has also edited several volumes, most notably The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (2019, with Will Baker and Martin Dewey), and Linguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus (Routledge 2019, with Anna Mauranen). Alongside these and other volumes, she has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on ELF and more recently on EMF, or English as a Multilingua Franca, her conceptual update to ELF. She is currently working on the 4th edition of her university coursebook, Global Englishes (Routledge) as well as continuing to reconceptualise ELF/EMF in terms of its inseparable relationship with multilingualism

Martin Dewey

Co-deputy director

Martin Dewey is Reader in Applied Linguistics at King’s College London. Martin’s research focuses on the globalisation of English, the role of English as a Lingua Franca, and multilingualism. This research primarily entails exploring the relevance of multilingualism in language teacher education and the impact this has on how we conceptualise language and language knowledge in English language teaching. His research interests also include a focus on attitudes towards multilingualism, language ideologies and critical pedagogy in teacher education and professional development. He has presented and published widely on this empirical work. He is co-author, together with Alessia Cogo, of Analyzing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus Driven Investigation (Continuum 2012) and co-editor, together with Jennifer Jenkins and Will Baker, of Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (Routledge 2018). Martin is Editor-in-chief of Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.

Nur Hafiz Abdurahman

Hafiz completed his Ph.D at King’s College London. He holds a BA in English Education, and an MA in English Language and Linguistics. Before joining King’s, he taught English for specific purposes in Indonesia at two different universities. He is also a teaching staff for pre-service teaching preparation programme in Indonesia. His current PhD research focuses on the role of English as a Lingua Franca, translanguaging, and multilingualism, particularly, in Indonesia which primarily entails exploring the relevance of these topics in pre-service teacher education and the implication these practices have on how we conceptualise language and language knowledge in English language teaching. He has previously conducted research and published topics such as foreign language anxiety, language attitudes towards multilingualism, and translanguaging practices in teacher education and professional development in Indonesia. Hafiz’s research interests include Global Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and the ELF-informed teacher education.

Lays Fenilli

Lays Fenilli is a PhD candidate at State University of Maringá (UEM – Brazil) and currently an Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistic Studies from Western Paraná State University (UNIOESTE – Brazil). Her current research is about English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education, related ideologies, discourses and practices in the state of Paraná (south of Brazil). She has previously conducted research in Bakhtinian Studies and Portuguese Language Teaching. Her research interests also include English Language Teaching, Multilingualism, Dialogical Discourse Analysis, Decolonial studies, among others.