Afsaneh Bahraini - Iran Language Institute

The words digital and pedagogy have become watchwords in the field of ELT. They are connected on a theoretical as well as a practical level, and, put together, the term ‘digital pedagogy’ has drawn the undivided attention of the ELT community. With the outbreak of COVID-۱۹ and the great disruption that followed, teachers’ digital agility and pedagogical approaches were put to the test as numerous practitioners transformed their material, content, and teaching environment overnight. Through the process, voices were raised and the case pressed that pedagogy needed to change as the field of ELT came to experience a first-hand tumultuous relationship with digital technology. In the case of the Young Learner (YL) less is known about the type of pedagogy that is needed to support children's learning with digital devices. In this paper, there will be a discussion of the term ‘digital pedagogy’ and how it relates to English language teaching for preprimary and primary learners.

Digital; Pedagogy; Digital Pedagogy