ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter there is a return to the main themes outlined at the beginning of the book, namely those of how language education and profit interrelate, how language teachers are valued, and what this can offer further work which takes up matters of political economy and language, and/or language teaching in contexts across the globe. Here, it is argued that many of the issues at the forefront of this book – alienation, the distribution of value, the flow of capital, and precarity, are concerns which are found throughout contemporary applied and sociolinguistics, as well as for those involved in language teaching more broadly. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications this has for future research into language teaching globally, and asks what issues such research might address in light of the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
