Abstract
The Issue of Creating and Implementing Innovations in ELT: The Unheard Voices of the Teachers
It is a widely-known fact that the field of English Language Teaching (hereafter ELT) has witnessed quite many innovations. Each of them strived for some important gains for language learning and teaching, such as learner growth, teacher autonomy, professional development, and better evaluation procedures can be sampled. Besides their benefits to language learning and teaching, it is also important to take into account their time of life and diffusion of them in language classrooms. Up to now, the field of ELT can be considered as one of the most fertile territories in education studies due to the number of innovative ideas appeared. Moreover, the implementation process of these innovative ideas has always gained the title character. In other words, either “top-down” or “bottom-up” procedures were facilitated in language innovation implementation; the focal point was always the proper application of these innovations in the selected contexts. The creation of teacher-initiated innovations and the diffusion of
Keywords
English language teaching, innovation, diffusion, English teacher