ELT EDUCATION NEEDS REDEFINITION: THE FUTURE IS NOW! ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP LOST CIRCLE OF ELT EDUCATION: CAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION BE THE PANACEA?
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Authors: Shirzad Mansouri
Keywords: Entrepreneurial leadership, Entrepreneurial competencies, English Language Teaching, Teacher development
Abstract: To know a language means to apply it in various contexts efficiently but this does not happen due to various factors. The major problems occur where it is expected for its contributing roles to be taught efficiently and productively in our education. In the classroom, English Language Teaching (ELT) is taught as a foreign language to help learners achieve higher occupational positions and academically related ranks and professionalism but it has failed to do so when increasing number of graduates fail to find a kind of appropriate job which can satisfy at least the basic needs of the market and its required employability. The main reason might be ELT failed to satisfy the needs of dynamic and rapid changing society. In deep exploration of various studies and experiments, it is emphasized that English Language Teaching Education (ELTE) needs to be reformed and modified to meet expected standards employers required for the university graduates. Strong classroom leadership is needed to reform the education system. The current study attempts to find effective way of teaching known as entrepreneurial education in ELT to review the related literature for finding the entrepreneurial factors which will lead to enhancement of teacher adaptive leadership competencies which are needed for the improvement of English language teachers teaching as well as the ELT learners’ performance in real adaptive challenges in social interactive context. To clarify such duality of dependency and independency, therefore, a qualitative analysis technique known as content analysis is applied to the existing literature to classify the themes related to such enabling competencies which can impact entrepreneurial practices in the ELT classroom. The findings demonstrated that entrepreneurial competencies are either individual or organizational competencies which form teacher’s professional competencies in English Language