Interculturality in the English language classroom: ways to promote critical language education

In this article, we will reflect on the role of interculturality as a critical approach to teaching English, which aims to promote respect, equality, and social justice. Therefore, we join Decolonial Studies to the guidelines of postmethod, aiming to offer macro-strategies and attainable practices t...

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Autores: Schulz, Mariana, Xypas, Rosiane
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:The ESPecialist (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/64515
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/64515
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Critical interculturality
English teaching
English as an international language
Postmethod
Initial teacher education
Applied Linguistics
Foreign language teaching
Interculturalidade crítica
Ensino de Inglês
Inglês como língua internacional
Pós-método
Formação inicial de professores
Linguística Aplicada
Ensino de língua estrangeira
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Sumario:In this article, we will reflect on the role of interculturality as a critical approach to teaching English, which aims to promote respect, equality, and social justice. Therefore, we join Decolonial Studies to the guidelines of postmethod, aiming to offer macro-strategies and attainable practices that favor learners' sensitization to other cultures and worldviews in a non-hierarchical way, questioning power relations and social inequalities. This is qualitative action research, which was undertaken in two stages: (1) bibliographical research and (2) the elaboration of a workshop/intervention. While still in progress, we hope that, on completion, the research will achieve the proposed objective, which is to contribute to critical initial teacher training.