COVID-19 and Language Education: Lessons of a Pandemic for English Teaching

Autor/in	Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid
Titel	COVID-19 and Language Education: Lessons of a Pandemic for English Teaching
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 29 (2022) 1, S.3-11 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2021.2001642
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); International Relations; Politics; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Internationale Beziehungen; Politik; Ausland
Abstract	In this article, I present a thought experiment highlighting some lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic for language education. I focus on two characteristics of the pandemic and the English language teaching (ELT) industry. First, during the pandemic, humans appeared to grapple with the ancient problem of killer viruses, with modern medicine initially offering little beyond basic advice; and ELT seems to deal with old problems like teaching vocabulary with little real progress in decades. Second, Asia was the epicenter of COVID-19 that later spread worldwide and caused social consequences in addition to health disasters; and the history of English as an additional language started in Asia before spreading to other places and creating sociocultural challenges. Departing from this tentative analogy, I argue that traditional ELT theory and research trends need to be revisited, and sociopolitical concerns should be considered as crucial aspects of the essence of ELT. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01