English as a Lingua Franca in an Indonesian Multilingual Setting: Pre-Service English Teachers’ Perceptions

The notion of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) has challenged the a Foreign Language (EFL) paradigm, which mainly aimed to attain native-like competence. Generally, ELF-informed teaching promotes creative use in multilingual environment meet communication needs. It also emphasises intelligibility ELF spoken rather than pursuing standard only. This study examine perceptions Indonesian pre-service teachers regarding ELF. Using sequential explanatory design, this distributed close-ended questionnaire items 150 participants first stage data collection, followed by Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with five second stage. Descriptive statistics and thematic analyses were used explore research quantitatively qualitatively. results demonstrated that still favoured native-speaker model English. They believed students should imitate native speakers communication. findings qualitative analysis, however, showed their towards constrained ideological rankings between other varieties suggests be introduced reflected teacher preparatory programmes, so it could develop future teachers’ awareness importance implementing principles educational setting.