ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the weaknesses and the strengths of our global interconnectedness. It has made visible the deep injustices and inequalities of globalization and it has led to a serious investigation of how digital technology is transforming our way of knowing and understanding the world. In Applied Linguistics, new ways of conceptualizing foreign language education have focused on intercultural global citizenship as a pedagogic goal (Byram, 2021), on multiliteracy as a curricular principle (Kern, 2015), on translanguaging as a practical theory of language (Li, 2018), on decolonizing the field altogether (Macedo, 2019), and rethinking the relation of humans and machines (Pennycook, 2018). How do these new conceptualizations of the field hold up in a post-corona world? This chapter will explore what we can learn from the corona experience and what global citizenship might mean in a post-COVID-19 world.
