Prof. Fuad Abdul Hamied, the Coordinator of TEFLIN Advisory Board, represented TEFLIN to attend the 15th International and 51st Annual Conference of English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI). The conference was held virtually on November 27, 2021. The virtual conference is a platform to share participants’ experiences, experiments, and insights, which would lead to shaping indigenous approaches and practices. The participants can also learn from such initiatives in other countries, especially those where English is not the native language of most people. This attempt is just the beginning in thinking aloud and concretizing alternative approaches, methods, and practices collaboratively.
The virtual conference prepares participants in ‘newer’ ways to meet the emergent and emerging scenarios. The needs of learners for learning English and acquiring a minimum global standard level of proficiency have changed, and so have the demands on teachers of English and the educational system at all levels as well as the trends in modes of learning and course delivery, especially towards online and blended learning.
