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Direct linkWindle, Joel Austin; de Araujo Rosa, Jennifer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
In this paper, we investigate the pressures placed upon English teaching by neo-nationalist politics, particularly as it overlays existing neoliberal constraints. We focus on the experiences and perspectives of Brazilian teachers who are committed to critical language education even as it carries increasing risks to themselves. Interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Nationalism
Barros, Sandro R. – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2018
What is at stake for multilingual subjects when English becomes a site of conflicting emotions about being in/with the world? What does it mean to understand, negotiate with, and perform the meaning of English as a global curriculum, a lingua franca, a "thing" of the senses, and a desire awakened by narratives feeding into and being fed…
Descriptors: English, Multilingualism, Emotional Response, Global Approach
Dell'Olio, Francesca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Migration has become an important phenomenon in the contemporary world. In receiving countries, language policies have been put into place to offer migrants education in the national language, in order to give them tools to communicate with and to create a feeling of belonging to the local community. These policies claim to be integration…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Windle, Joel; Nogueira, Maria Alice – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper analyses tendencies that distinguish the internationalisation of education for two class fractions--owners of medium to large businesses and highly qualified university professors and researchers. We identify the importance of cosmopolitan cultural capital, particularly fluency in English, in strengthening the position of both groups…
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Capital, Business, Ownership
Peer reviewedLeal, Maria Christina Diniz – Language Awareness, 1998
Reports a two-phase project aimed at developing critical language awareness through the teaching of Portuguese. During the first phase, 13-year-olds in a Brazilian state school evaluated their Portuguese lessons, and identified features they felt needed altering to develop critical awareness of language and social reality. Changes were proposed…
Descriptors: Action Research, Citizenship, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
Download full textSantos, Denise; Fabrício, Branca Falabella – TESL-EJ, 2006
This article discusses an investigation carried out with a group of young learners of English in a Brazilian language school aiming at these individuals' development of critical thinking and their involvement in a de-naturalization process of gender dualism. The study, which took place in an educational context witnessing important changes at both…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
