The paper describes the process of designing a pre-service teacher training course on the use of information and communication technologies in ELT and shows how the transition to online education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic affected it. The course was originally designed as a blended one with a focus on exploiting ICT for effective skills development in face-to-face lessons and online home assignments. Due to the pandemic in 2020, it moved online, which created an unexpected opportunity for experimenting with ICT inclusion in fully online ELT and modifying the course accordingly. While the original focus on skills development was kept, new content areas, such as online assessment, gamification and interactions in online environments were added. The process described as well as the participating students’ post-course reflections refined our understanding of online course design and ICT use and is hoped to provide guidelines for similar experiments in other teacher education contexts.

The sense of mission is an integral part of the national spirit. Therefore, questioning its validity can lead to the destabilization of a nation’s fundamental values and a major crisis in its self-image. This type of crisis accompanied the transformation of the American sense of mission at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which arose from the clash between the principles of traditional continental expansionism and new imperialist aspirations. In the wake of the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States found itself definitively enmeshed in the global arena of great power politics. The control of overseas possessions not meant for statehood in the Union turned the federal republic into an empire in all but in its name. The crisis of the sense of mission fed on the inherent tension between liberal democratic traditions and the attempt made at imperial governance. As research into the Congressional Records will indicate, in the congressional debate developing between traditional and new ideas of expansionism, a consensus emerged that the questions relating to the status of the new overseas territories were the most significant the American people had faced during the nineteenth century, for these questions touched upon the roots of the nation’s consciousness. With view to the significance of this historical moment, this essay examines the forces at work both for and against the transformation of the American sense of mission at a time when Congress still constituted a powerful check on the executive in the field of foreign policy. (ÉESZ)

Tanulmányunkban azt vizsgáljuk, hogy a vizuális modalitású nem verbális viselkedés milyen szerepet tölt be a multimodális verbális kommunikációban. A multimodális verbális kommunikáció elméleti szempontú jellemzéséből kiindulva empirikus elemzéseken keresztül megmutatjuk, hogy a multimodális verbális kommunikációban a különböző nem verbális és verbális modalitások kontextusfüggő módon, együttesen hogyan hozzák létre a közvetített tartalmakat. Emellett az esettanulmány olyan szempontokat ismertet, melyek társadalmilag is hasznosíthatók, mivel a verbális és nem verbális viselkedés elemzésével feltárja, miért olyan népszerűek és hatásosak a járványszkeptikus és oltásellenes nézetek képviselői.