Saman Ange Michel Gougou

• PhD in Communication
• Université Alassane Ouattara

This session focuses on environment sustainability awareness in EFL classrooms through 21st-century pedagogy in West Africa. Findings highlight the contextual environment sustainability teaching materials, classroom activities, and learners’ outcomes. A pedagogical handout is shared for sustainable environment citizenship behaviors acquisition and...

This paper aims to explore how Project Based Learning (PBL) techno-pedagogy blended learning integration in higher education institutions (HEIs) allows for fostering learners’ well-being and solving local communities’ problems with new transferable skills supported by digital tools. A multisite ethnography mixed research design in three higher educ...

The metaverse revolution and the shifting to artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming human daily activities with the growth of chatbots and virtual agents changing communication and public relations strategies. Therefore, this paper aims to explore and question virtual influencers in Africa regarding communication strategies in organizations...

JCPR Volume 4 No. 1 (January 2025) presents a collection of scholarly articles exploring strategic communication and public relations issues from global and local perspectives. Featuring contributions from scholars in Kenya, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire, the volume covers topics such as digital diplomacy, brand building, and gender-based c...

The focus of this paper was to explore the challenges facing the effectiveness of teaching the English Language in TESOL and assess the role of communities of practice groups in overcoming challenges facing the effectiveness of teaching the English Language in East and West Africa. The study employed qualitative research through a virtual ethnograp...

In the world, digital revolution and online learning platforms offer new opportunities to support "education for all" and human wellbeing in developed and developing countries for more diversity, inclusion and equity. Simultaneously, shift to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) changes accessibility to education and increases human resilience and p...

Education plays a crucial role in ensuring future generations are able and well-equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century for sustaining all aspects of humankind wellbeing. Simultaneously, education system digitalization is a process which was accelerated these recent years due to the globalization and disruptions as COVID19 outbreak. In...

In the world, digital revolution transforms the entire human activities field such as policies, businesses, humanities, educations. Similarly, in a disruptive context of COVID-19, the commitment and lockdown accelerated the digital appropriation in institutions, schools, collective and individual daily practices. In this challenging context, Social...

This chapter argues that in order to ensure the prospect of education in Africa, equity, inclusion and efficiency of education technology needs to be given attention of improvement. This chapter employed a case study design, and ethnography as a qualitative research approach which adapted constructivist theory to discuss the status of E-learning, a...

English is the language of Internationalization as Medium of education and communication (Rao, 2019). Similarly, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been rapidly shifting in educational mode by virtue of their open features, resulting in eliminating some learners limitations by facilitating the continuation of their education anywhere and anyt...

In the 21st century, the digital revolution has transformed all of society and social media has become flexible teaching spaces, metamorphosizing the learning process in online learning communities in developed and developing countries. In the field of English language skills acquisition, this educational metamorphosis offers new learning opportuni...

This paper focuses on studying the peculiarities of the linguocognitive actualization of the concept of ecosophy in language education discourses with an emphasis on its cross-cultural ontology in the English language teaching and learning environments of Argentina, Côte d'Ivoire, the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, U...

Digital platforms revolutionize various sectors in the Industry 5.0 era. JCPR's Vol.2 No.2 2023 explores how technology enhances communication in organizations, vocational schools, agriculture, fashion, and beauty businesses. From IoT in Indonesian vocational schools to YouTube education for farmers, and strategic brand collaborations like #Jacquel...

The digital revolution through the Internet, connected technologies,and virtualplatformstransform whole human activities including policies, economy, education,organization, environment,and so on. Thus, in developed and developing countriesparticularly, social media and digital platforms appropriationresultin virtualization of daily communication p...

The purpose of the study was for EFL stakeholders, teachers, and educators to be able to overcome their teaching challenges in various contexts for a transformative teaching approach. This study used a qualitative approach and a case study design to investigate the experiences of English language teachers in Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania, and during the...

This proposal focuses on a qualitative and descriptive study of the integration of Open Educational Resource (OER) to overcome the teaching lack of resource and implement Blending learning. The purpose of the presentation is for EFL stakeholders, teachers and educators to be able to overcome these teaching challenges in various contexts through a c...

This study aimed to empower English language teachers and educators to be able to learn best practices from community of practice groups and help them to overcome the teaching challenges in their teaching contexts. This descriptive qualitative research explores the positive impact of communities of practice in TESOL through a virtual ethnography ap...

In the world, within the framework of population needs, environment commitments, economy trends, societal facts and infrastructures, urbanization planning and smart urban experience are common concerns to provide sustainable living areas in developed and developing countries. Similarly, the digital revolution has transformed citizens' daily life th...

This study intended to understand English teachers’ experiences through 21st century skills in English Language Teaching (ELT) for a pedagogical transformation. In the world, many teaching challenges that negatively affect the English Language Teaching (ELT) effectiveness could be teaching approach, class size, technology integration, multilingual...

This presentation is a descriptive study about the positive impact of communities of practice groups during the TESOL 2021 Conference. Findings focus on teacher’s challenges, the benefits of these communities, and best practices for creating future community of practices for teachers around West Africa so that they can develop teaching skills and r...

In the world, the appropriation of digital communication tools like smartphones and social media disrupts the social practices in rural and urban areas daily. In this context, new realities of sociability, communication modalities and social belonging appear in society due to new behaviors. So, this paper aims at describing the plurisemiotic commun...

In the world, the appropriation of digital communication tools like smartphones and social media disrupts the social practices in rural and urban areas daily. In this context, new realities of sociability, communication modalities and social belonging appear in society due to new behaviors. So, this paper aims at describing the plurisemiotic commun...