Intercultural citizenship and the internationalisation of higher education: the role of English language teaching

Abstract The expanding internationalisation of higher education (HE) has resulted in the inte rcultural dimensions becoming a core aim many institutions. This is frequently represented though concept intercultural or global citizenship with students expected to engage academic, professional and social communities across multiple scales from local global. language which both HE citizenships take place often English, more precisely ELF, epically English medium (EME). Therefore, given this key role for teaching (ELT) provides an ideal setting developing education. However, at present, under-researched area. To address gap, collection short papers snap shot current thinking research form ELF perspectives. We include reports on development through study abroad university China, Japan Thailand; pre-service teacher Turkey; discussion relationship between citizenship, identity, symbolic power ELT EMI classroom.