1st Edition

Adaptable English Language Teaching Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances

Edited By Nima A. Nazari, A. Mehdi Riazi Copyright 2025
292 Pages 2 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In an age of rapid technological transformation and evolving teaching settings, the ELT community must adapt to the needs of emerging situations and a diverse range of learners. Adaptable English Language Teaching addresses this need by bringing together contributions from renowned scholars around the world with insights on all major areas of English language teaching with an emphasis on... Read more

Introduction
A. Mehdi Riazi and Nima A. Nazari

Section I: ELT responses to new circumstances

Chapter 1: English language curriculum development in new circumstances
John Macalister

Chapter 2: Sustainability in English language teacher education: Preparing teachers for an unknown future
Melissa Reed, Yulia Kharchenko, and Agnes Bodis

Chapter 3: Understanding the needs of international EAP students: Adaptive progress
Justine Light, Denise Lo, and Martin Guardado

Chapter 4: Silence as autonomy: Case studies of Australian and international students
Dat Bao

Section II: ELT assessment, feedback, and managing classrooms in new circumstances 

Chapter 5: New approaches to the assessment of English as an additional language
Graham Seed, Angeliki Salamoura, and Nick Saville

Chapter 6: Feedback to students in ELT
Maddalena Taras

Chapter 7: ELT classroom management in times of change
Christopher Graham

Section III: Teaching English language skills and components in new circumstances

Chapter 8: Teaching listening in new circumstances
Joseph Siegel

Chapter 9: Teaching reading
Peter Watkins

Chapter 10: Challenges and opportunities in teaching speaking
John Trent

Chapter 11: L2 writing pedagogy: Responding to emerging needs and emergencies
Ismaeil Fazel

Chapter 12: Adaptable teaching of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation: Enhancing fluency and engagement through online apps
Xinrong He and Barry Lee Reynolds

Section IV: The contribution of technology to ELT in new circumstances 

Chapter 13: Language teachers and teaching technologies: Valuing the teacher and teacher values in online learning
Jane Spiro

Chapter 14: Computer-assisted language learning and teaching: Emerging trends, challenges, and solutions in ELT
Matt Kessler, Francesca Marino, and Sean Farrell

Chapter 15: A multimodal analysis of roleplays between upper intermediate level learners: Lessons for teaching oral language competency in online contexts
Gerard O’Hanlon and Anne O’Keeffe

Conclusion
Nima A. Nazari and A. Mehdi Riazi

Biography

Nima A. Nazari is Professor of Applied Linguistics and works as Centre Director at OnCampus London South Bank University, UK.

A. Mehdi Riazi is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar.

"Adaptable English Language Teaching: Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances, edited by Nima A. Nazari and A. Mehdi Riazi, makes a substantial and timely contribution to English language teaching (ELT) by foregrounding adaptability as a unifying principle across a broad coverage of curriculum, assessment, the teaching of specific language skills, and technology use... this volume offers a coherent account of how curricula, teacher education, assessment, skills pedagogy, and technology use can be re‑designed around the principle of adaptability, with chapters that speak productively to one another and foreground the balance between teacher/learner agency and digital integration."

- Siqi Songisa, PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Applied English Studies, University of Hong Kong, review in The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics