ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING: A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Today in the world of globalization, in this age of digitization, teaching of English language has become
challenging one. As defined by the academia, ELT has been considered as a research discipline under the
field of 'applied linguistics'. Teaching and learning English language and using it as an extra language is
intricate and multifaceted. The process of English language teaching and learning involve languages, cultures,
learning, communication, identities, etc., which in turn are placed educationally within a host of diverse
disciplines. One can say that language teaching and learning is transdisciplinary as multiple disciplines can
offer diverse lenses through which to understand the same phenomena and to build new understandings of
the object of interest. Furthermore, as a field in which languages and cultures are inherently brought into
contact, language teaching and learning is also at an intersection between disciplines that are conceptualized
and developed differently in different languages and academic traditions. The present research paper will
examine how language teaching and learning is adopting a transdisciplinary perspective in today's changing
world. In particular, it will focus on the idea of language learning from an intercultural perspective to
examine how multiple disciplines and different disciplinary traditions contribute to shaping understanding
of the field; it will also consider some of the challenges of bringing multiple disciplines to bear on this
understanding.