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5 - Values and Politics in English Language Teaching, Team 3 Andres…
5 - Values and Politics in English Language Teaching
chapter purpose
Individuals with a social and political context
uncover and explore the moral issues that are raised by the realization that language teaching is a political business and by our attempts to address this realization in our work as teachers.
There had been an emphasis on language learning as in individual psychological phenomenon
questions
are teachers political creatures?
Most teachers do not think of themselves as political creatures
are classrooms political places?
many do not believe that classrooms are places where their own political views should be aired.
power
It refers to anything that has to do with power and the control of resources of every conceivable kind
ideas
The part played by language education in the processes of colonization and decolonization.
The effect of the spread of English on indigenous languages.
There are many ways in which teaching can be thought of as political in nature.
The political dimension of teaching immigrant and refugee learners in ESL contexts.
The dominance of English in the media and in computer-based technologies, and the role of English in globalization.
critical pegagogy
To support students in becoming producers, not merely consumers, of knowledge.
a case in ESL setting
Much of the best works in critical pedagogy for ELT has been done in ESL settings, especially in adult education.
Brian Morgan (1997)
"Identity and Intonation: Linking Dynamic Process in an ESL Classroom"
The politics of ELT is one thing inESL settings. It is quite another in EFL contexts, that is, in contexts where English is not the ambient first language but is a foreign language.
fundamental moral dilemma
There is a moral worth in developing positive and encouraging relations with their learners and in acting as cultural bridge between them and the new culture
there is a moral worth in teaching another language; and there is moral worth in giving these particular individuals access to English
Team 3
Andres Ulises Ortega Garcia
Cyntia Abigail Garcia Izaguirre
Liliana Veronica Aguilar Castillo