Translation is sometimes perceived as the alternative to the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca use; however, in the globalized world of the twenty- first century, translation actually frequently involves English as a lingua franca (ELF) as either the source or the target language. Because of the special status of English as a global language, translation involving ELF is also characterized by specific trends. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of translation in the era of globalization in academic contexts. The academic sphere is an area where the dominance of ELF is very prominent and the international character of academia is increasingly perceived as a monolingual world. When used in multilingual academic settings, is often invisible. The aim of this paper is to examine differences in translation strategies in translation from and into ELF in academic discourse, by focusing on translators’ interventions related to code glossing. A small, carefully composed bidirectional translation corpus is used in the analysis. The findings show that different types of code glosses are added in translation into ELF as compared to translation from ELF.