International Mother Language Day 2022: technology-enabled multilingual education: challenges and opportunities

This paper focuses on technology-enabled multilingual education – the potential role of technology multilingual teaching and learning – especially in an era which has witnessed the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with its disruption of the educational calendar for a protracted period of two years. It also looks at what opportunities exist for technology in multilingual teaching and learning and the challenges that could be encountered in the process. A large number of low-income and high-income countries were forced to lockdown their citizenry, including schools during this period. The logical solution the world could resort to therefore was the use of various forms of distance learning methodologies and the application of technological tools. This situation brought to light the needs associated with the different levels of learners, that is, children, youth and adults. How about the teachers, school managers and administrators?