As global Covid-19 pandemics have unprecedentedly impactedELT professionals at all levels during the past few years, existing challenges and new opportunities demand more innovative, diversified, and sustainable ELT practices and policies that can lead to better education today. For innovation, language educators and educational policy makers need to consider how best recent technological advancement, with its interactive and immersive characteristics, can provide new alternatives for learning. For diversity in language education, it is important to provide inclusive and equitable quality language education to ensure learners, irrespective of gender, age, and ethnicity, have equal access to life-long learning. To sustain quality education, ELT professionals call for effective language learning and teaching practices so that language education endeavors can be promoted and sustained.
This conference aims to reexamine English teaching, coming up with ways to innovate, diversify and sustain English teaching and learning. What is the situation at the various levels of learning—primary, secondary, and tertiary? Are our pedagogy and assessment appropriate and how can they help learners? How can theory be applied to classroom practice?