Chacón Beltrán, Manuel Rubén2024-05-202024-05-202021Chacón-Beltrán, R. (2021). Attitudes Toward English as a Lingua Franca Among Prospective EFL Teachers in Spain. In: López-Jiménez, M.D., Sánchez-Torres, J. (eds) Intercultural Competence Past, Present and Future. Intercultural Communication and Language Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8245-5_8978-981-15-8245-5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8245-5_8https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/15469This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8245-5_8 Esta es la versión aceptada del capítulo, revisada por pares, pero que puede carecer de algunas mejoras posteriores a la publicación. La versión registrada de este capítulo, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8245-5Lingua francas have played a crucial role throughout history on the development of civilization by facilitating communication among people of different cultures for different purposes. There have been, and there are, many instances of such “tools” for intercultural communication, but if there is a lingua franca that is playing a prominent role in the world at the moment, it is English. More than 375 million people speak English as a first language, and one-quarter of the world’s population (375 million) speak it as a second or foreign language (Crystal, 2012).eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessbook part