Summary: | English Language Teaching (ELT) and content delivery have undergone vast shift in this era of
modernization. With analogue content digitized as a common form of knowledge delivery,
methodologies equipped with current technologies have produced new perspectives on English
Language Learning. This paper reviews the status, context, teaching parameters, assessment
parameters, teaching strategies and usability in the current research capacity of ELT, highlighting
the current works with technologies in their content delivery methods. Emerging technologies in ELT
has also inspires the other spectrum of study involving the usability of technological interfaces, which
has evolved constantly with the progression of human and computer interactivity. The aim of this
research is to rediscover usability evolution surrounding the technologies in ELT and to redefine the
gap existed in between English learning and tools interactivity. Current technologies and usability
measures used in ELT will be discussed, highlighting the current trends in gauging interface
interaction. A summary of comparative results in the aforementioned works will also be highlighted
in this review paper, together with the categorization of reviewed parameters, variables and metrics
in ELT. The reviews conducted have shown that there are still many unexplored areas in ELT, ELT
technologies and usability in ELT.
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