Editors’ Introduction: Developing the International Presence of Research in the Teaching of English

Scholarship in education and sociolinguistic studies of language and minority rights suggest that “the ascendancy of English as the current world language has also clearly impacted on the reach and influence of national languages other than English, while at the same time reconfiguring key language domains within and across nation-states such as the academy, business, technology and media” (May, 2012, p. 7). Precisely how and in what ways individuals navigate these key language domains is the focus of this issue.