Language Teachers: from Gatekeepers to Curators

It’s hard to believe, but before the Internet, people were still able to learn languages.

In those distant times, language learners had relatively few resources - textbooks, dictionaries, the occasional cassette tape, and library books. Teachers were fonts of knowledge who had the key to unlocking a new language. They were linguistic gatekeepers.

Today, we have AI chatbots and the internet.

Learning resources: scarce to abundant

Language learning has dramatically changed in the last twenty years (an...