Decolonising English language teaching

Ursula Lanvers, Programme Leader for the PhD Programme in Applied Linguistics at the University of York and Tetyana Lunyova, Researchers at Risk Fellow at the University of York, discuss the meaning of and approaches to decolonising ELT. With reference to their 2024 British Council English Language Teaching Research Awards (ELTRA), they talk through how considerations of decolonisation impact on pedagogy, the relative positions of different languages and teacher identity and wellbeing, with a particular focus on insight gathered from the secondary school context in Ukraine.
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