First of all, greetings from these first days of the new year. I hope this year will be super duper year for all of us in which we will see each other more often in physical environments. 

With the new year, it is again the time to turn back to our responsibilities. In the previous post, I mentioned that we are going to produce an outline/a road map for our research field and then build our website on it. So we did and we were asked to collaboratively work on Dropbox and create our outline through Mindomo (a collaborative tool for mind maps and outlines). Because from the beginning of the training now on we were mainly working on World Englishes and GELT, we wanted to choose an all inclusive issue to work on but we also didn't want to retell what has already been discussed. Therefore, we preferred an umbrella topic: "Inequality in English Language Education" emphasizing its presence not only for language learners but also language teachers such as practices of native speakerism and for the learners of English as a second/foreing language, conforming to so-called ideal speaker model.  Therefore, we will have the opportunity to tap on English as a global language and to ensure awareness on World Englishes and intercultural aspect of language teaching while also digging deeper on the issues of globalization, immigration, having equal access to education and language materials. 

The reason why we, as a group (Chamber of Mercury) chose this inequality issue because it is a very broad term and it needs attention of educational authorities, teachers within the field of ELT, ESL and EFL learners and even the family members. In that sense, our main aim in this journey of making research and creating website is to raise awareness on the main issue dealing with such notions that I mentioned above and try to change them so that we can shape/change the future of ELT. 

As a final, I would like to share a picture from our training days, I really miss those days!

I feel really lucky to work with these amazing people:)