Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna2015-02-262015-02-262013in: Migdał, Jolanta and Agnieszka Piotrowska-Wojaczyk (eds.). Cum reverentia, gratia, amicitia… Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Bogdanowi Walczakowi. Vol. I.Poznań: Wydawnictwo Rys. 463-469.http://hdl.handle.net/10593/12759Contrary to the predictions of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1908), English has become the international auxiliary language worldwide. Not artificial Esperanto, but natural English. Globalization of a natural language, however, inevitably has consequences for the language itself. How English is International English, we may ask. For linguists, this is a question of language change. For teachers, this is a matter of choice between a full-fledged native version of the language vs. the so-called ELF (English as a Lingua Franca, cf. the discussion in Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Przedlacka 2008). The aim of this paper will be to arrive at a moderate recipe” for teachers and learners.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessRozdział z książki