Tag: ELT
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Towards Critical ELF pedagogy
English learners can speak clearly and correctly, yet still be exploited, marginalised, or unheard. A critical ELF perspective starts asks what language education should do when communication works, but justice does not.
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Rethinking language textbooks: Language, Ideology, and Liquid Racism
Textbooks aren’t neutral. They shape how learners see language, culture, and identity while reinforcing hidden ideologies in education. This post explores how educators can critically engage with language textbooks to foster inclusion, justice, and critical awareness in the classroom.
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Schoolscapes Aren’t Neutral: Language Teaching for Inclusion
This post explores ways in which language teachers can engage learners through schoolscapes, i.e., posters, signs, and visual texts that shape language ideologies. With real-world examples, it shows how classrooms can reflect and promote multilingual inclusion.
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Using Linguistic Landscapes to Challenge Monolingual Norms in ELT
The post aims to challenge monolingual practices in language education. Drawing on a recently published study (Schvarcz & Warren, 2025) it argues that recognizing students’ linguistic backgrounds fosters engagement and inclusion.
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CLELE Journal: New issue and volunteering opportunity
This post introduces the May 2025 issue of CLELE Journal, with articles on critical literacy, cultural representation, and inclusive pedagogy through literature. It also features a call for volunteer copyeditors and submission info for prospective authors, ideal for educators, researchers and anyone interested in children’s literature and language education.
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The AI Lang BarCamp: AI for Language Education
An invitation to share your practical ideas about AI-assisted language education in a BarCamp (informal expert meeting) in November 2024.
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AI in ELT: Two Possible Futures
AI is reshaping language education, challenging teacher agency, destabilising assessment, and exposing geopolitical biases. This post examines the stakes and argues for a humanistic, intellectually grounded ELT future.
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Children’s Literature in English Language Education Journal
A few words about the Literature in English Language Education Journal, a diamond open access journal for ELT teachers and researchers.
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Call for papers: Inclusion & Diversity in CALL
If you’re teaching and researching Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), you may be interested in the following Call for Papers for a special issue to be published in CALICO Journal, the official journal of the Computer Assisted Learning International Consortium. The special issue is edited by Carolyn Blume (TU Dortmund), Jules Bündgens-Kosten (Goethe University Frankfurt)…