Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic has directly impacted the way teachers and learners worldwide teach and learn languages, forcing numerous educational activities in technologically-deprived contexts to stop altogether and those in technologically-rich environments to go online on an emergency basis. This volume provides a collection of theoretical and practical insights into the challenges and affordances faced globally during the pandemic and lessons learnt about the application of digital technologies for language teaching and learning. The chapters explore the vital role of technology in its various forms, including the internet, social media, CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning), TALL (Technology Assisted Language Learning) and TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning). Topics explored include the new avenues digital technology has opened up for language teachers and learners, options and challenges in applying technology in various contexts, and how the second language education industry could have been adversely impacted at the time of the pandemic without technological affordances. The contributions showcase studies from various geographical contexts, revealing how the global crisis was received and tackled differently in Australia, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the UAE, the UK and the USA.

Karim Sadeghi is Professor of TESOL at Urmia University, Iran. Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Farah Ghaderi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Urmia University, Iran.

This volume offers truly ground-breaking accounts of recent pedagogical transformations through technology in language education. It uncovers important messages for learners, teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and policy makers about where and how technology should be embedded into the geopolitical, sociocultural, psychological, and pedagogical contexts of language teaching and learning in contemporary society. -- Anne Burns, Curtin University and University of New South Wales, Australia This is a highly accessible edited volume which provides good coverage of key topics and issues on technology-enhanced language learning. This is a must read for anyone interested in how technological tools were adopted by teachers and learners on an emergency basis during the COVID-19 pandemic, what lessons we can learn and how technology plays a key role in the post-pandemic era. -- Li Li, University of Exeter, UK