A CRITICAL LOOK INTO THE READINESS OF IRANIAN ELT CONTEXT FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT

Nowadays, with the advent of new technologies of information and communication, the world has turned into a global village so that all societies are compelled to tune up their changes with the demands of the information society. In parallel with such changes, the educational systems are experiencing significant changes both in their paradigms and methodologies. Respectively, due to the important role of English language teaching (ELT) in Iran, considerable attention has to be paid by policy makers and language planners with regard to the inefficiency of the present paradigm. In so doing, they need to set their priorities in the departure to a paradigm shift through taking the positive, practical, and novel ideas of a new paradigm and reforming and improving the structural framework of our present education system, meanwhile maintaining a dialogic relationship among all agents of change such as ELT professionals, teachers and practitioners.