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The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the world, and in one word, created a new one. No sphere of human life remained untouched by what has been described as the worst human disaster of the last century. Although the world is preparing for a new post-pandemic normal, it will take years for human beings to truly appreciate the grave consequences of a catastrophic nightmare. Despite its unforgettable and irrecoverable damages, the pandemic offered a much-needed house-shaking in many aspects of our individual and social life. One of the areas worse affected at the beginning but which is hoped to gain in the long-run was the education sector. This chapter delineates what lessons the pandemic had to offer in second language teacher education and professional development. It also considers the same from the perspectives of the contributors to this volume, one of the first devoted to language teacher education issues during the pandemic.
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Sadeghi, K., Thomas, M. (2023). Conclusion: What Did We Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic?. In: Sadeghi, K., Thomas, M. (eds) Second Language Teacher Professional Development. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12070-1_15
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