Today's English Language Education Landscape From the Perspective of a Teacher Educator and University Administrator

Abstract

Drawing on his personal experience as an English language teacher educator and a university administrator at a private university in Central Java, the author argues that L2 educators’ scholarly passion (which is critical spiritual pedagogy in the author’s case) can function as a lens through which pertinent global issues, current government’s regulations, policies and practices at a local institution, knowledge base of English language teaching (ELT)/applied linguistics, and L2 learners’ voices of their perceived needs are to be made sense of and critically examined. In turn, increased L2 educators’ understanding of people (e.g., the government, fellow top managers in a university, L2 learners), texts they produce, and contexts in which they are embedded at local, national, and global levels will make it possible for L2 educators to better respond to needs of L2 learners.