Citation :

Md. Saiful Alam, Adelina Asmawi , 2025. "An Unorthodox Embrace of Techno-Human Togetherness in Language Education: An Apology for a Non-Equilibrium That Favors the Social over the Technological" International Journal of Community Empowerment & Society Administration [IJCESA]  Volume 2, Issue 4: 68-71.

Abstract :

Streams of technological innovations are immensely influencing language learning and teaching in this age of a seeming co-existence of language and technology. This techno-human togetherness is reported to have brought forth positive results in terms of enhanced language learning and pedagogical efficiency. However, it has also created a sociological tension. Decentralization of human teachers from the scene of language pedagogy, overreliance on technology as almost a human alternative, and personalized isolation as language learners desert classrooms and peers as social non-essentials have posed a million-dollar question: Is language learning and teaching becoming more technological than social in the time of techno-human togetherness? This paper argues for a “posthumanist triad” that reimagines a new ecology where language teachers, learners, and technology come to coexist in a balanced positionality of humans with anthropocentricity in the learning process as the “social major” and technology as a peripheral “technological minor” for instrumentation. This paper advocates for going beyond the orthodoxical sense of language learning within human thresholds and embracing technology as a new digital scaffold. However, it is based on the principle that language learning should prioritize social interactions over technological celebrations.

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Keywords :

Techno-Human, EdTech, Techno-Social, Language Teaching, Techno-Language Education.