1st Edition
Adaptable English Language Teaching Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances
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 adaptability—of teaching method, context, skills, and priorities.
Organized around an innovative past-present-future structure, chapters offer methods, strategies, and perspectives that are adaptable to any difficult or under-resourced context. It delves into engaging through online applications, understanding emerging trends in computer-assisted language learning and teaching, and the implementation of virtual classroom and multimodality in ELT.
Given its multifaceted focus, this book will provide ELT practitioners, trainers, trainees, and researchers with invaluable insights and research findings to effectively navigate and adapt to emerging circumstances.
Introduction (A. Mehdi Riazi and Nima A. Nazari)
Section 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 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.
