ELT in the Time of the Coronavirus 2020 (Part 2): An Introduction
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Abstract
Like everyone else, I presume, I have been hoping that COVID-19, similar to SARS in 2003, would suddenly disappear and everything would return to normal, the old normal, that is. However, it has not happened. In fact, there have been warnings of a second wave of COVID-19 infections in many parts of the world. We thus cannot be sure that, worldwide, the disease will abate any time soon. Safe distancing and hence online teaching will continue in many places until at least the end of the year 2020. Having a major, let alone exclusive, online component in a module is not what many ELT practitioners have dealt with before and I believe many of us members of the ELT community are anxious about the prospect of going and staying online for the foreseeable future. That is why, more than ever, we members of the ELT community need to come together and share our expertise and experiences going online. This is what this special issue ‘ELT in the time of the coronavirus 2020’ is all about.
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Wong, J. (2020). ELT in the Time of the Coronavirus 2020 (Part 2): An Introduction. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.46451/ijts.2020.09.17