Digital Challenges in English Langauge Education
Session
Education and Development
Description
This presentation focuses on a number of digital challenges in international English as a foreign language teaching. Against the backdrop of rapid technological challenge and rising internet connectivity, the ‘parent subject’ of applied linguistics has moved from a focus on language-in-place to language-on-the-move in the wake of recent geopolitical change and upheaval. The talk moves on to discuss the challenge of educating digital natives, the difficulties of integrating mobile technologies into the language classroom, and technological inequalities between Global North and Global South. Finally, a framework- digital literacies- which draw from the work of Pegrum, Hockly and Dudeney (2022) is put forward offering the prospect of integrating technology with the longstanding goals of language education.
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-95-6
Location
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
28-10-2023 8:00 AM
End Date
29-10-2023 6:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2023.315
Recommended Citation
Allen, Christopher, "Digital Challenges in English Langauge Education" (2023). UBT International Conference. 16.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/IC/EDU/16
Digital Challenges in English Langauge Education
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
This presentation focuses on a number of digital challenges in international English as a foreign language teaching. Against the backdrop of rapid technological challenge and rising internet connectivity, the ‘parent subject’ of applied linguistics has moved from a focus on language-in-place to language-on-the-move in the wake of recent geopolitical change and upheaval. The talk moves on to discuss the challenge of educating digital natives, the difficulties of integrating mobile technologies into the language classroom, and technological inequalities between Global North and Global South. Finally, a framework- digital literacies- which draw from the work of Pegrum, Hockly and Dudeney (2022) is put forward offering the prospect of integrating technology with the longstanding goals of language education.