7 - Teaching English in the Digital Age

Summary

Language teaching and learning are substantially affected by the rise of digital technologies. Digitisation has resulted in the integration of a whole new set of competences into teacher education, not least with regard to what instructors have to teach their learners to enable them to become proficient users of digital technologies and to move, communicate, and interact within digital environments competently and safely. This chapter delineates the considerable cultural transformations that go hand in hand with digitisation. The aim is to capture its professional and cultural intricacies and to describe the competences that teachers and teacher educators need to become competent professional agents capable of integrating digital technologies into their own professional development and into the language classroom.