Language Education in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities

This book considers the importance of language education in a rapidly changing world. The authors look at language education from different perspectives: the teaching and learning of foreign or second languages; the role of literacy, oracy and language across the curriculum; the part played by different stakeholders in educational policy; and the current state of language teacher education and the ways in which language is addressed in the education of teachers of all subjects. Drawing on their extensive experience of language education, and on case studies and data from around the world, the authors consider how a different approach to language in education might help students to develop the language awareness and linguistic and communicative competences they need in order to participate fully and confidently in our increasingly diverse societies.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 10 are free to download as open access publications under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can access them here:
Chapter 1. The Crucial Role of Language in Education: https://zenodo.org/record/8282422
Chapter 10. Language in Education, and in Teacher Education: Towards New Paradigms: https://zenodo.org/record/8282728

Rod Bolitho is a freelance consultant in English Language Teaching and Education. His most recent book is Continuing Professional Development  (with Amol Padwad, 2018: Cambridge University Press India).

Richard Rossner is a freelance author, consultant in language and languages in education and an Eaquals inspector. His most recent book is Language Course Planning (with Brian North, Mila Angelova and Elzbieta Jarosz, 2018: OUP).