Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna2014-01-302014-01-302013http://hdl.handle.net/10593/9972Contrary 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 hasconsequences 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.en