Critical Issues in ELT

ELT has moved beyond primary concerns related to developing learners’ proficiency in the language and designing curricula, syllabi, materials and assessment tools for the same. It is witnessing rapid developments towards de-centralizing and de-elitizing English, promoting multilingual approaches for teaching English and bridging the gap between language-in-education policies and practices. The challenge that the English teaching profession faces today is to find ways of serving the social aspirations of the marginalized to acquire English by using learners’ home languages as assets rather than liabilities in language learning. Critical Issues in ELT is a collection of well researched articles by English language scholars who engage in such contemporary debates on the teaching and learning of English more specifically in India.