Major Trends in the Global ELT Field by Dr. Yilin Sun President of TESOL International Association

• This is a post summarized by Mr. Huy Phung from the article at the source: http://blog.tesol.org/8-major-trends-in-the-global-elt-field/#more-4730
• 1. Major Trends in the Global ELT Field Dr. Yilin Sun President of TESOL International Association
• 2. Changing perspectives on English teaching and learning 1
• 3. “World Englishes English as a lingua franca TESL TESOL TENOR TESR
• 4. Changes in goals of English teaching and learning 2
• 5. …not to imitate native English speakers. Be competent language users, critical thinkers, constructive social change agents
• 6. Changes in approaches to teaching 3
• 7. eclecticism “Postmethods Era”
• 8. Changes in teaching content, curriculum design, and assessment 4
• 9. both the content and English multiple perspectives and cultural understandings. more content based and theme based
• 10. Expanding the dimension of communicative competence 5
• 11. “multi-competence” intercultural communicative competence local and international cultures
• 12. Changing views of an 6 effective English educator
• 13. linguistic instructional Intercultural competence nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) Not just linguistic identity Not just native speakers
• 14. Rapid development and integration 7 of information technology in ELT
• 15. cell phones and multimedia devices Internet, YouTube, Web.2.0, e-books
• 16. Changing roles and increasing responsibilities of teachers 8
• 17. 21st-Century Classroom Teachers collaborative, content-based, project-based curriculum co-teach, team-teach, and collaborate facilitators, creators, entertainers, motivators,..
• 18. Major Trends in the Global ELT Field What Do You
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