Kumiko Murata is a retired professor, formerly with the School of Education and Graduate School of Education in the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.

1. ELF Research Methods and Different Approaches to Data and Analyses: Introduction Part 1: ELF Research: Some Theoretical Underpinnings and Development 2. Research Perspectives on ELF: Linguistic Usage and Communicative Use 3. Researching ELF Communication: Focus on High-stake Encounters 4. ELF and Translanguaging: Covert and Overt Resources in a Transnational Workplace Part 2: Spoken and Written Corpora in ELF Research 5. Good Texts in Nonstandard English: ELF and Academic Writing 6. Exploring Diachronic Changes in Research Articles from an ELF Perspective: A Small Corpus Study 7. Tracing the Emergence of Multilingual Practices in a BELF Meeting: Micro-diachronic Analysis and Implications of Corpus Design 8. Asian Corpus of English (ACE): Features and Applications 9. Interpersonal Formulaic Sequences in ELF Academic Lectures: Methodological Challenges Part 3: Conversation Analytic Approaches to ELF Interactions 10. Applying Conversation Analysis to ELF Interaction Data 11. Analysing Multilingual/Lingua Franca Interactions using Conversation Analysis: Notes on Transcription and Representability 12. Accounting for Asymmetries in ELF Interactions: Three Disparate Asian Settings Part 4: Narrative Approaches in ELF Research: Exploring Attitudes Towards ELF 13. 'Place-reflexivity' as an Imaginary Kaleidoscope to Explore Methodological Issues in Elf Research 14. Understanding the ELF Phenomenon through Narrative Inquiry: A Diary Study on Identities of Japanese ELF Users 15. Rigour in ELF Language Attitude Research: An Example of Conversational Interview Study