A transdisciplinary approach to ELT: Teaching values and ideology in real-world context

This paper examines how language teaching and learning can be informed by a transdisciplinary perspective. Transdisciplinary teaching and learning promotes real-world problem-oriented education rather than discipline-centered education. English language teaching (ELT) in a transdisciplinary perspective aims at reconstructing English and other disciplines, integrating knowledge from literature, psychology, philosophy, sociology, science and technology, politics, new information technology and other fields, and ultimately forming transdisciplinary knowledge that can be utilized to discover and solve real-world problems more effectively. In addition, transdisciplinary teaching is interlingual, intercultural oriented by integrating a diversity of epistemologies from different disciplines. Transdisciplinary perspective can contribute to teaching English more effectively and ethically. This approach also helps to reshape power dynamics and teacher ideology in the English language teaching and learning process.