Language Learning in the Age of Global English: A 21st-century Research Agenda

This chapter presents the challenges for researching second learning acquisition in the context of Global English. Such endeavour needs to justify the link between language learning and Global English: this is delivered first. The Global English phenomenon has different implications for language learners who possess English as part of their first language, and those who do not: the state-of-the-art research is discussed in the next section. I then discuss how this new global language learning landscape has opened up new urgent research agendas and argue that it brings challenges as well as opportunities.