Based on an ethnographic research study involving Brazilian teachers from different educational contexts in the city of Salvador, Brazil, this paper aims to approach and discuss dialogic relationship between critical pedagogy language education, within context English as a global lingua franca. The main goal original work was investigate how EFL see themselves professionals contemporary world, ...

Abstract This paper highlights the concept of constructivism that underpins theory and practice foreign language teaching. The dominance this pedagogical movement in second half 20th century beginning 21st has been particularly important for study understanding digitally supported forms learning. Constructivism can provide a response to analysis new learning: it is based on premise knowledge tr...

This paper reports on a new pedagogy for Chinese language teaching and learning at elementary schools through exploratory classroom instruction using Information and Communication Technologies. The study used quantitative method to collect data from two elementary schools of China. The results showed that:(1) the three-in-one pedagogy of “character recognition, in-class reading and in-class wri...

in teaching a foreign language (fl), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (l1). to prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the fl syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that language...

Language educators are required to reflect upon content delivered to the students. Teaching strategies should be adapted to keep students loyal to cultural identity as well as foster resistance to oppressive policies dictated within English language curricula. Despite the significance of applying critical principles by teachers, it is not known whether Iranian ELT instructors and subject teache...