Live chat with David Graddol

I'll try to participate... this guy must have interesting things to say:

At 14:00h (Brasilia time) on Friday, July 27th, we will have the opportunity to chat with David Graddol for around an hour. Just visit www.britishcouncil.org.br/elt and click on the blue banner (Community Chat Events).
We will be discussing the new approaches to English and how they create major challenges for ELT. The kind of English required for international communication, the motives for learning it, and the methods employed have all been rapidly changing. Demand for intercultural communication skills is rising whilst the dominance of native speaker models of English is declining.
Biodata: David Graddol is a British applied linguist, well-known as a writer, broadcaster, researcher and consultant on issues relating to global English. He is the Managing Director of The English Company (UK) Ltd and Managing Editor of linguistics books and journals for Equinox Publishing. David is a member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Language Problems and Language Planning and Visual Communication.