English as a Lingua Franca Awareness of the Pre-service English Teachers in Assessing Students’ Speaking Assignment

The permeating use of English promotes a contact language among people from multicultural backgrounds called as Lingua Franca (ELF). Pre-service teachers going to the teaching practice thus need be aware ELF trends engage with their students in classroom. This study seeks explore awareness pre-service assessing students' speaking assessment. Twenty three geographically different universities were recruited. They asked establish rubrics assessment based on given video and invited Forum Group Discussion (FGD) for underlying reasons scoring. results indicated that University A developed they demonstrated open-mindedness, tolerance, less value errors, emphasis intelligibility both personally professionally. Meanwhile, Universities B C openly state Native speakers’ is only proper English, any other beyond it defect. discussion suggests geographical locations may cause exposures speakers English. actively ongoing trend Language Teaching Faculty Education provide continuous support process.