The spirit of today’s time is that much needs fixing in the world. From climate crisis to children being deprived a quality education, international organizations often seek develop ways improve life for global citizens. This also true within applied linguistics, as special interest groups teachers’ such IATEFL and TESOL International have sought establish more accessible equitable access langu...

The authors review all aspects of a Language Arts methods course for pre-service teachers, one which employs a multi-literacies pedagogy (The New London Group, 1996) and is taught at a laptop-based university. The course begins with a deliberate immersion into the complexities of multiple literacies, including digital literacy and critical literacy. The authors outline the course assignments, r...

Against the background of the central dilemma in teacher education of the relationship between theory and practice, this article reports a teacher education approach that strongly emphasizes the use of theory in learning to teach, assuming that teaching is also an intellectual activity. A main starting point is the subject pedagogy, the ‘Fachdidaktik’, in this case of Dutch language and literat...

The aim of the paper is to analyze contributions English language teaching towards an omnilateral human formation, under historical-critical pedagogy perspective. study includes discussions about pedagogical conceptions found in education policies and a proposal strategies for second year elementary school. competences strongly inserted school and, based on concepts employability labor capacity...

Purpose Critical digital pedagogy (CDP) is an emerging field in education. The basic tenet of CDP involves taking learners' experiences into account and engaging them critical thinking about social oppression. With the outbreak unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, has got more currency appropriacy current paradigm shift learning teaching. Design/methodology/approach This paper scrutinizes different...

The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused ...