Event overview
Critical (Language) Pedagogy and ELF: two rivers flowing together towards the open sea? Dr Alessia Cogo (Goldsmiths) & Dr Sávio Siqueira (Bahia Federal University)
This presentation concerns the work with English language teachers in Brazil in relation to their engagement with the diversity of English and notions of social justice. Our approach is grounded in two main fields of research, namely English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Critical Language Pedagogy (CLP). Both approaches present an emancipatory facet, which we discuss in relation to our previous exploratory research and our current project with pre-and in-service teachers in Brazil. The core of our talk is exactly the confluence of both concepts, ELF and CLP. We will review their foundations, similarities and differences and although such orientations may still be distant from everyday language teaching practices, it is our contention that contemporary ELT classrooms all over the world have a lot to gain if they engage with both concepts. Besides discussing features related to this partnership and the implications to teacher education and classroom practice, we intend to share results of the experience of the first three candidates from Goldsmiths’ MA Program in Multilingualism, Linguistics and Education who conducted research at Bahia Federal University (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil, having ELF and CLP as the guiding force for their investigations.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Oct 2019 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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