Consider the following statement: “the teaching of a foreign language […] tends to place ‘non-natives’ locally involved in the process of teaching/learning in a subordinate position when confronted with the authority attributed to the ‘natives’ in what is considered ‘their own language’” (our translation) (Jordão, 2013, p. 280).
Here, the writer is attributing this view to
The move from English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has promoted
Critical literacy emphasizes the need to use language as a vehicle for social change. One of the strategies a teacher may use for this purpose is
Critical literacy supporters tend to see the discourse of “the now ‘classic’ critical pedagogies of the 80s and 90s” (Jordão, 2013, p. 290) as being
According to Jordão (2013), critical pedagogy differs from structuralist pedagogies because, among other reasons, it
Passage 4 suggests that a transformative perspective to ESOL teacher education requires that teachers become more
The digital age has been disrupting the normative structures of education in many ways. According to Bohn (2013, p. 97), one of the challenges language educators now face is