Decolonizing ELT methods through critical thematic units

IF 3.1 2区 文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Elt Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI:10.1093/elt/ccad012
Mario E. López-Gopar, William M. Sughrua
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The purpose of this paper is to resist the ‘colonial’ status of ELT by discussing our attempts to decolonize ELT methods through critical thematic units (CTUs), co-developed and applied by Mexican student-teachers working with children in Oaxaca, Mexico. Understanding that epistemologies (knowledge) and in consequence language methods are provincial, historically situated, and embodied in children’s ontologies and material lives, our CTUs start by questioning ‘why’ English should be brought into children’s lives and then continue by analysing ‘what’ social purposes ELT could accomplish with children, with a focus on important themes in their lives (e.g. water shortage, nutrition, and health). With these CTUs, which adopt a heteroglossic and multimodal view of language, teachers and children coauthor multimodal and multilingual identity texts serving as pedagogic and assessment spaces where language is both learned and used to negotiate affirming identities for both teachers and children. To exemplify these decolonizing attempts, the present article walks the readers through the components and implementation of one CTU focused on ‘eating habits in connection to health issues’, carried out by two student-teachers. The article will thus articulate how our CTUs are different from what are considered ‘methods’ in ELT, as they are epistemologically and socially situated.
通过关键主题单元实现英语教学方法的非殖民化
本文的目的是通过讨论我们试图通过关键主题单元(CTU)将英语教学方法非殖民化来抵制英语教学的“殖民”地位,该单元由墨西哥瓦哈卡州的墨西哥学生教师共同开发和应用。认识到认识论(知识)和由此产生的语言方法是地方性的、历史性的,并体现在儿童的本体论和物质生活中,我们的CTU从质疑“为什么”英语应该被引入儿童的生活开始,然后继续分析ELT可以为儿童实现的“什么”社会目的,关注他们生活中的重要主题(如缺水、营养和健康)。有了这些CTU,教师和儿童共同撰写了多语言和多语言的身份文本,作为教学和评估空间,在这里学习语言,并用语言为教师和儿童协商确认身份。为了举例说明这些非殖民化的尝试,本文带读者了解了由两名学生教师实施的一个专注于“与健康问题有关的饮食习惯”的CTU的组成部分和实施情况。因此,这篇文章将阐明我们的CTU与英语教学中被认为是“方法”的不同之处,因为它们在认识论和社会地位上是不同的。
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Elt Journal
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期刊介绍: ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language. The journal links the everyday concerns of practitioners with insights gained from related academic disciplines such as applied linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology. ELT Journal provides a medium for informed discussion of the principles and practice which determine the ways in which the English language is taught and learnt around the world. It is also a forum for the exchange of information among members of the profession worldwide.
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