The limited amount of available evidence of which
English or Englishes are actually taught and learned
in different locations worldwide provides a very
unclear picture. In national language-educational
policy terms, there appears to be little clear
guidance, and a default valorisation of ‘native
speaker’ varieties through their widespread use in
teaching and testing materials (especially for TOEFL
and IELTS) produced by major UK and US publishers
(Jenkins, 2007a). The views of teachers, themselves
likely to be key models, informants and brokers
concerning which English is taught, are particularly
neglected in the debate (Seidlhofer, 2003; Young
and Walsh, 2010). Additionally, little, if any, classroombased
research has attempted to identify target
English for learners, or consider how teachers and
learners orientate themselves towards the different
available targets.