Journal Archives
2025 · 2
The Future of English
The article will offer an overview of possible future developments relating to English. It will begin by rehearsing the phenomenal expansion of English as a global language, including not only its numerical and geographi…
The Future of English Language Teaching: Personal Perspectives
This paper outlines the British Council’s Future of English programme from both a historical perspective (the work on the futures thinking in English language teaching since the turn of the millennium) and the British Co…
GenAI and TESOL
This article explores the transformative impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on TESOL over the next twenty years, emphasizing both micro-level changes in teaching practices and potential macrolevel shifts in motivations for…
Generative AI as a Disrupter of Language Education
Since the launch of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has widely affected society, but the full potential impacts on language education are yet to be felt. Most discourse on genAI in language education…
Creativity in the AI Era: Humans vs. ChatGPT in Unprompted Playful Language Tasks
Creativity is undergoing significant transformation with the growing adoption of AI-powered text generation tools like ChatGPT. Nowadays, teachers are faced with pseudo-creativity scenarios where students can use AI to p…
Constructing TESOL's Future: The Implications of Automation and Political Correctness
This paper highlights two interesting challenges that TESOL faces, the increasing use of automation in communication and the effect of political correctness. With many organizations already embracing the use of AI, TESOL…
The Future of TESOL with Multimodality
The future of TESOL must engage critically with the multimodal turn, acknowledging the shifting landscape of communication in a digital age where meaning-making extends beyond linguistic forms to encompass a range of sem…
Bright or Gloomy? Some Speculations on the Future of EAP
As with many other disciplines within contemporary Higher Education, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is now finding itself in a state of considerable flux. Changing attitudes to the role and wider purpos…
TESOL Teacher Education in 2034: Some Predictions
This article compares the answers to four questions about teacher education ten years hence - who, what, where and how - from, on the one hand, twenty experienced teacher educators and, on the other, three Large Language…