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 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.
