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A Decolonial Lens to English Language Teaching from a Teacher Educator’s Experience
[...] Identity is a central category in ELT (English Language Teaching). For instance, several studies have been conducted to document English language teachers’ identities (ELTIs) and how they are constructed [...]. However, identity continues to be seen and researched within what Mignolo (2009) labels as the colonial difference. The colonial difference operates by converting differences into values and establishing a hierarchy of human beings ontologically and epistemically. Ontologically, it is assumed that there are inferior human beings. Epistemically, it is assumed that inferior human beings are rationally and aesthetically deficient.
In this respect, the ELT field has witnessed how colonial constructions of ELTIs have been combined with factors such as race, gender, ethnicity, class, language, and others [...].
Therefore, ELP (English Language Pedagogy) is a remnant of coloniality. In particular, ELP in ELT has separated the subjects from their bodies/identitary features and their geographical location regarding the teaching practice [...]. This attempt is evident in the insertion of the notion of competence as the only discourse mostly reproduced in teaching and teacher education. This unidirectional/dimensional discourse is what has caused that “English language teaching and learning identities are more oriented towards that goal of identifying decontextualized forms of being in the field of teaching” (Castañeda-Peña, 2018, p. 18). For instance, Grosfoguel (2010), when discussing coloniality, claims that: “By breaking the link between the subject of enunciation and the ethnic/racial/sexual/gender/epistemic place, Western philosophy and science manage to create a myth about a real universal knowledge that masks, that is, conceals not only the speaker but also the epistemic, geo and body-political place of the structures of colonial power/knowledge from which the subject speaks [...].
In line with decoloniality by Mignolo and Walsh (2018), we think of ELP otherwise – as “the ongoing serpentine movement toward possibilities of other modes of being, thinking, knowing, sensing, and living”; a movement only possible if those who enact ELP name it, reclaim it, and commit to “changing, disrupting, and dismantling the hegemonic relations” [...].
Therefore, I would like to resort to intersectionality – the intersection of different identitary features – to allow the recognition of whom we are based on what we do, as “who we are and from where we speak is highly relevant for the intellectual projects we are likely to pursue” (Moya, 2011, p. 79). Intersectionality can assist in claiming agency (Stone-Mediatore, 2003) in spaces and territories where colonial histories have been present [...].
Intersectional narratives are then discursive representations of experience in which there is conceptual integration among those conversing. In fact, intersectional narratives serve this study to ground concepts and interpretations for “knowledge co-creation, in which researchers and participants develop shared understandings and develop new ideas” (Galafassi et al., 2018, p. 9). This is why intersectional narratives in this study comprise a relevant theoretical construct indispensable to investigating epistemological ruptures [...].
Available in: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/90754. Acess on: Feb. 10, 2026. (Adapted).
The article states that
[...] Foreign language learners may encounter various communication problems when their interlanguage is limited. In order to convey their messages and remain in a conversation until their communication goal is achieved, [...] learners need to employ communication strategies, which have been defined generally as device used by second language learners to overcome perceived barriers to achieving specific communication goals [...]. Language learning cannot be separated from its culture. Language is a clear manifestation of culture. A word can have both cognitive meaning and cultural meaning. Cultural meaning refers to words and expressions which represent cultural perception, values and behavior. At discourse level, the link between language, communication and culture is virtually inseparable.
Miscommunication occurs when one interprets communicative rules of one culture in terms of the rules of another culture. In the process of learning a second language, learners make some errors due to first language interference. By knowing strategies to avoid misinterpretation between different backgrounds of speakers, the problems mentioned before shall be avoided easily. Language teaching at school has traditionally been aimed at developing linguistic competence. Teachers tend to teach grammar and linguistic features without letting their learners practice and improve their communication in English. Probably this is one reason that cause some learners are good in English but they cannot use English orally. This problem may be solved by introducing communication strategies to learners in order to avoid communication problems and equip them with strategies to overcome the problems of speaking that they are dealing with [...].
Communication strategies are usually associated with spoken language and research has shown that students tend to use various communication strategies when they are unable to express what they want to say because of their lack of resources in their second language (L2) [...]. When learners experience that fluency in their first language (hereafter L1) does not follow the same pattern as their L2, a gap is created in the knowledge of their L2. These gaps can take many forms: a word, a phrase, a structure, a tense marker or an idiom [...]. In order to overcome that gap, learners have two options: they can either leave the original communicative goal or they can try to reach alternative plans and use other linguistic means that they have at their disposal [...]. It is also important to know that culture and language cannot be separated. Therefore, in the context of language teaching, the knowledge of language and its culture need to be taught as well. The role of teachers in introducing communication strategies to students could determine learners’ successfulness in facing problems of communication [...].
Despite the fact that many [...] researchers lend support to communication strategies training, some opposition to it has been expressed. Bialystok (1990) and Kellerman (1991) argue that one should teach the language itself rather than the strategies. Schmidt (1983) believes that L2 learners develop their strategic competence at the expense of their linguistic competence. According to Skehan (1998), using communication strategies by skilled learners may hinder the development of their interlanguage knowledge resources [...].
Available in: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1129727.pdf. Acess on: Jan. 30, 2026.
According to the text,
Central to multiliteracies is the concept of Design. The New London Group indicates the numerous ways by which signification occurs. More recently, as Kalantzis and Cope (2005) describe it, “there is a nice ambiguity in the word ‘design’. Design can denote morphology or the sense of invisible inner structures or inherent relationships of cause and effect” (p. 41). Kalantzis and Cope (2005) use Design in a comprehensive manner to denote “agency” as the “stuff of the characteristically self-conscious pedagogical moves, teaching frameworks and organisational forms of education as we currently understand it” (p. 41). In brief, as Falk (2001) observes, for the New London Group, Design expresses “the active role of the literacy learner in constructing new meaning from existing resources” (p. 314). Because Design rejects isolated, abstract and decentralised learning, it demands “production of the new rather than replication of the old” (Kress, 2000, p. 141). In Design, the learner is actively creating and re-creating while having choices in learning that did not exist in traditional print-based models of literacy.
The modes or Design concepts are: linguistic, visual, audio, spatial and gestural; however, the New London Group do not perceive each of these literacies as singular and isolated from other literacies. For students who engage with the four knowledge processes there is deep understanding and proactive learning:
• Experiencing: through the known and the new, where the evidence data from the prior knowledge and life experience of the learner is combined with immersion in new knowledge and new experience in meaningful settings.
• Conceptualising: abstract concepts and theoretical synthesis by the process of naming and theorising. This enables the learner to define, apply concepts and comprehend the abstract generalised meanings in concepts and visual representations.
• Analysing: analysing, interpreting functions capably, through the comprehension of the role of knowledge and critically by analysing purpose and intentions.
• Applying: knowledge appropriately and creatively by understanding suitable situations to apply knowledge and extending it to create new knowledges.
IYER, Radha; LUKE, Carmen. Multimodal, Multiliteracies: Texts and Literacies for the 21st century. In: PULLEN, Darren L.; COLE, David R. Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education. Social Practice and the Global Classroom. Hershey and New York: ICI Global, 2010, p. 22. (Adapted).
After reading this passage on multiliteracies and design, choose the alternative that best conceptualizes those two words.
Abstract
Social media permeates the daily lives of millennials, as they use it constantly for a variety of reasons. A significant contributing factor is the availability of social media through smartphones and mobile apps. This kind of immersive and complex media environment calls for a literacy pedagogy that prepares students to understand, engage with, and adapt to social media that are inevitably going to remain a part of their lives. Research into digital literacy/literacies has sought to address the development of tools and methods to aid college students in becoming more situated and adept digital citizens. This article extends the conceptualization and application of digital media literacy through the inclusion of a critical, multimodal, and interdisciplinary pedagogical approach. The paper illustrates that critical digital literacy drawing upon multimodal and interdisciplinary analysis is imperative in preparing students to manage the predominance of social media in their lives.
TALIB, Saman. Social media pedagogy: Applying an interdisciplinary approach to teach multimodal critical digital literacy. In E-Learning and Digital Media. Sage, 2018. Available at: journals.sagepub.com/home/ldm. Access on: Feb 12, 2026. DOI: 10.1177/2042753018756904.
This objective of the article as stated in the abstract is to
[...] Considering the importance of having critical reading skills for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, the topic of developing of the students’ critical reading always has a prominent place among the researchers and educators. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the students’ critical reading ability in English language teaching (ELT) [...]. All of the studies reveal significant roles of critical reading ability on students’ success in academic study and its powerful effect on students’ critical thinking. More specifically, a study by Sultan et al. (2017) reveals that critical literacy approach had a significant effect on the pre-service language teachers’ critical reading skills, which include interpretation, analysis, making an inference, evaluation, explanation, and self-regulation [...]. Moreover, a study conducted by Karabay (2015) finds that, when reading texts, critical readers are always analytical; especially when they take critical notes and underline important information in the texts. Similarly, Kobayashi (2007), far before the study conducted by Karabay (2015), also indicate that critical readers substantially produce critical notes while reading expository texts, comparing to the less-critical readers who relied much on making a summary of the texts. Critical reading is a skeptical, careful, active, reflective, and analytical activity to judge the value of the text [...]. It is true that when reading texts, critical readers do not only grasp what is explicitly stated in the text but also go far beyond it using their high order thinking skills (HOTs) to tackle and evaluate the content of reading texts. These skeptical and analytical skills are required because of the emergence of the internet and other media [...]. This suggests that critical reading should become a part of foreign language teaching and learning. The English teachers or instructors should design appropriate teaching activities which encourage the students to develop their critical skills in reading [...]. The critical reading skills are important for the students because it affects their critical thinking abilities which are required nowadays, and in turn, helping them to be critical citizens and critical readers. A study by Zin & Eng (2014) indicates that critical reading ability can foster the students’ critical thinking habits. This is because reading is thinking and one cannot read without thinking [...]. Nevertheless, it is still difficult for the students to acquire the critical reading ability and big efforts and time are necessary to train the students to be critical. It is because the freshmen are sometimes not ready for the college academic tasks which require their critical thinking. Research carried out by Lisa (2008) confirms that many of the freshmen at the university level are not prepared for the demands of college reading, however, their critical reading skills are developed throughout the semester [...]
Available in: https://jurnalfaktarbiyah.iainkediri.ac.id/index.php/jeels/article/view/72. Acess on: Jan. 30, 2026.
According to the article,
Decolonizing applied linguistics suggests first of all the need to decolonize ‘language’– or the way that language is framed in linguistics and applied linguistics – aspart of any reclamation project. We can identify several key northern ideas about language that are at best inappropriate when applied to southern contexts and at worst are downright harmful. These include a legacy of considering languages in terms of cognitive, literate systems rather than embodied and embedded cultural processes; a tendency to reify languages as if they exist outside of human relations; and a set of assumptions about languages as repositories of knowledge that once lost, lead simultaneously to the loss of shared forms of culture and knowledge. Language reclamation itself can be understood as a process of decolonization both in terms of giving new life to a language that has been cast aside by processes of coloniality and modernity, and in terms of changing the ways in which language is understood (resisting the colonial archives of linguistic modernity). Decolonization from this point of view involves community needs and goals rather than top-down assumptions about grammatical fluency, and above all, community ontologies of language.
PENNYCOOK, Alastair; MACONI, Sinfree. Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp. 126-7.
After reading the excerpt, think about the possible relation between applied linguistics and language reclamation and choose the alternative that best associates them.
Theoretical Foundation of Critical Literacies and Global and Multicultural Education
In this chapter, I invite the reader to a more in-depth discussion on critical literacies from global and multicultural perspectives by presenting important theoretical constructs of each field. I first provide a historical and theoretical review of global and multicultural education, followed by the literature review of critical literacies, including relevant definitions. Overall, this chapter serves as the literature review of the three areas. Through this review, I attempt to answer the question on why global and multicultural perspectives matter in the field of critical literacies.
Global Education
The notions of “global” and “multicultural” are different in their theoretical orientation. The former was developed in response to international issues, while the latter was developed in response to national minority struggles in the U.S. This difference of visions and orientations is important as it highlights the difference in scope: global education traditionally is concerned with educational dilemmas that are relevant across nations and continents. It, therefore, covers a broader spectrum of issues such as intercultural relations. Rapid globalization driven by the Internet and human migration highlighted the need for global education and propelled scholarly attention to such matters. Philosophically speaking, global education is based on recognizing core human rights and it pertains to the notion of moral universalism. Namely, it is based on the view that human beings are created equal.
Multicultural Education
Research on multicultural education has flourished around the globe. In particular, in the U.S. historical context, it emerged with the American Civil Rights Movement. Unlike global education, multicultural education focuses more on national issues, specifically learning about cultures within the state. With its original purpose from the early 1960s and 1970s to address racism in schools and societies, early discussions on race and ethnicity focused on African Americans and were spearheaded by African American scholars. This type of ethnic studies has been the first phase in the development of multicultural education as a field. Since then, more multicultural theorists began to analyze the power issues underlying race and inequality, as well as other topics such as social class gaps and economic discrimination.
YOON, Bogum. Critical Literacies. Global and Multicultural Perspectives. New York: Springer, 2016, pp. 26-29. (Adapted).
We could define the idea of global and multicultural literacies respectively as
[...] In the twenty-first century, education is faced with the sophisticated technology and advance communication because people are now living in a global society with increasingly different local contexts. Students have discovered various ways of using media to communicate, collaborate, and create in the digital space. Much research has been done on multiliteracies pedagogy and a substantial number of studies have investigated multimodal texts [...].
This new environment changes the concept of text from reading and writing to be multimodal. Consequently, education needs to improve the quality of leaners that have high level of creativity to understand multimodal text.
Multimodalities are always integrated with the advanced technology where information comes from many sources in different forms [...]. Not only do English teachers need to include the students with all their diversities in situated contexts, but they also need to engage them in multiliteracies. Multiliteracies pedagogy concerned with the use of multimodal layers of learners’ world in the classroom to engage students with the tools and technology that they are already familiar with. It has been considered that multiliteracies pedagogy is a meaningful way that can effectively engage students in teaching and learning practice by offering four benefits. First, it strengthens the relationship between teacher and students. Second, it increases the inclusivity for multiplicity. Third, it develops performances of literacy practices. Last, it creates positive classroom community. The concept of multiliteracies pedagogy is has four major components which can be implemented in teaching practices. Those components are situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, and transformed practice. Every component has its important role in teaching and learning practice. They do not stand in linear hierarchy, but each of them can happen repeatedly, randomly, or simultaneously in complex ways [...].
Situated practice means the involvement of meaningful practices that able to relate to students’ experience and background. Through situated practice, teacher needs to construct the students’ life world experience and putting the meaning-making process in the real-world context. Overt instruction is defined as an active interaction between teacher and students that helps students to understand what they learn. Critical framing is similar with analyzing the social and cultural meaning of texts by assessing particular designs of meaning. Transformed practice is transferring the previous design to create a new design of text in a different context and cultural site. With transformed practice, students are expected to apply the knowledge they gained (from situated practice, overt instruction, and critical framing) appropriately and creatively. This involves activities such as writing, drawing, problem-solving [...].
Available in: https://journal.ipm2kpe.or.id/index.php/LEEA/article/view/1416. Acess on: Feb. 10, 2026. (Adapted).
The article affirms that
[...] Recent studies in corpus linguistics have examined specific aspects of spoken grammar particularly in unplanned speech. According to McCarthy and Carter (2001), spoken grammars have uniquely special qualities that distinguish them from written ones [...]. In spoken discourse, according to Fung and Carter (2007), the amount and frequency of DM use is significant in comparison to the use of other forms because they serve important interpersonal functions.
Therefore, DMs act as influential interactional features rather than having a purely grammatical function. One of the most important features of DMs is to constitute and organize talk [...]. There is acknowledgement that DMs have a pragmatic meaning in discourse and consequently play a significant role in speakers’ pragmatic competence because they contribute to the pragmatic meaning of utterances. Thus, there is the view that DMs contribute to the interpretation of an utterance rather than to its propositional content [...]. There are a limited number of studies conducted on the instruction of DMs in EFL contexts. All studies revealed similar findings, namely explicit instruction has a positive impact on learners’ production. The main difference being that each study focused on a different genre: writing skills, oral production and listening comprehension, respectively. In all these studies the addition of a post-test would have been beneficial to measure the long-lasting effects of teaching DMs on learners’ acquisition. Rahimi and Riasati (2012) stated that using DMs will help learners to perform better in spoken skills. In English as a Second Language context (ESL) Jones (2009) carried out a small-scale study with two groups, both of which were given the same DMs using two different teaching approaches: illustration, interaction and induction (III) and presentation, practice and production (PPP). The results demonstrated that PPP had a considerable effect on learners’ use of the taught DMs [...].
Available in: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1101735.pdf. Acess on: Feb. 2, 2026.
According to the text’s perspective,
THORNBURY, Scott. How to Teach Speaking. Cambridge: Longman, 2005, pp. 91-2. (Adapted).
One of the main problems when dealing with oral fluency is to know if a student should be corrected when interacting or after it. After reading this passage about feedback and correction in fluency, select the alternative that agrees with the point of view discussed in the passage.
Below you will find a list of actions related to reading and interpreting texts both in the new and old environments. Read the actions and decide which action relates to which kind of environment. Then choose the correct alternative that corresponds to the right choice.
1. Appreciating texts of prestige ‘literary’ value must be the rule for right interpretation.
2. Innovations, risk-taking and diversity in meaning-making are aspects to be regarded by teachers.
3. It must be considered that a wide and diverse range of texts exists and should be valued.
4. Reading means decoding messages transmitted by written texts.
5. Teaching students to read means dealing solely with canonic British and American production.
6. The fundamentals of literacy should be understanding messages beyond messages.
7. The many social languages and variations in communication must be considered.
8. There are multiple forms of reading a word in multimodal communication.
9. Understanding and using correct spelling and grammar is good communication.
10. We should read only standard, educated English used in homogeneous situations.
KALANTZIS, Mary; COPE, Bill. Literacies. Melbourne: CUP, 2012, p.19. (Adapted).
LEMS, Kristin; MILLER, Leah D.; SORO, Tenema M. Teaching Reading to English Language Learners. Insights from Linguistics. New York and London: 2010, pp. 171-2. (Adapted).
The excerpt discusses what the author calls ‘real-time delay’ in English as a foreign language students’ reading ability. After reading this passage, choose the best alternative that may define this real-time delay.
2._______________ speech acts associated with racist ideologies in different sociolinguistic situations and samples, including films, news, music, daily interactions and textbooks.
3._______________ through some samples of cultural and sociolinguistic contexts such as academia to identify stigmatized markers of racist cultural linguistic materiality.
4._______________ that antiracist fight is possible through reflecting, relating, comparing and contrasting different perspectives.
5._______________ on their own linguistic awareness development and agency throughout the course.
MAGRO, José L. Language and Antiracism. An Antiracist Approach to Teaching Language in the USA. Jackson: Multilingual Matters, 2023. (Adapted).
The items mentioned have to do with the outcomes of a foreign language class of which objective is to teach L2 language viewing antiracist practices. The verbs “become”; “identify”; “go”; “demonstrate”; “reflect”, have been extracted from the items. After reading the topics, choose the alternative that presents the verbs that fit the items, respectively.
“Redacte un texto argumentativo sobre el impacto de las redes sociales en la educación. Se evaluará el uso adecuado de marcadores discursivos”.
Al corregir las producciones, el profesor observa que algunos estudiantes emplean numerosos marcadores (por ejemplo, por otro lado, sin embargo, además, en conclusión), pero el texto presenta problemas de progresión temática y coherencia argumentativa.
A partir de esta situación, seleccione la alternativa que presenta la interpretación pedagógica más adecuada.
I. Las lenguas de especialidad, como es el caso del español para fines específicos, se caracterizan no sólo por un léxico especializado, sino también por unidades de fraseológicas específicas, o sea el contexto del uso de la lengua debe necesitar de estrategias y destrezas comunicativas determinadas, además de conocimientos de esa situación de comunicación.
II. Las necesidades de aprendizaje de estos grupos se limitan al dominio del vocabulario propio de su profesión y se caracterizan por realizar actividades mediante géneros del discurso propios, deteniéndose en el vocabulario especializado, pues es la parte más importante de los objetivos.
III. La enseñanza y aprendizaje del español se está reorientando a la pragmática con el fin de satisfacer las necesidades reales de comunicación de los estudiantes que aprenden una segunda lengua. Es decir que la formación en lenguas extranjeras para adultos se centra en la consecución de una competencia comunicativa que capacite a los estudiantes para desenvolverse de forma efectiva y eficaz en contextos académicos y profesionales.
se verifica que es/son correcta/s solo
1. presenta ejemplos auténticos extraídos de plataformas digitales;
2. analiza con los estudiantes el contexto de producción (quién escribe, para quién, con qué intención y en qué soporte);
3. discute marcas lingüísticas propias del género (modalización, uso de emoticonos, estrategias argumentativas breves);
4. solicita la producción de un comentario crítico sobre un tema de actualidad, considerando el destinatario y el propósito comunicativo;
5. promueve una revisión colectiva centrada en la adecuación discursiva y no solo en la corrección gramatical.
A la luz de la concepción sociointeraccionista de los géneros discursivos defendida por Mikhail Bakhtin (2011) y desarrollada en el ámbito brasileño por Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2002), señale la alternativa que mejor evalúa la coherencia teórico-metodológica de la propuesta.
A partir de esa concepción sociointeraccionista de los géneros, desarrollada por Mikhail Bakhtin (2011) y ampliada en el ámbito educativo brasileño por Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2002), dadas las afirmaciones sobre los géneros textuales en la enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE),
I. Los géneros textuales son estructuras formales relativamente estables que deben enseñarse como modelos fijos, priorizando su reproducción estructural para garantizar precisión lingüística.
II. En la enseñanza de ELE, el trabajo con géneros implica considerar las condiciones de producción, circulación y recepción del texto, así como su propósito comunicativo y el papel del destinatario.
III. El enfoque por géneros en ELE permite articular reflexión lingüística y actuación comunicativa, ya que los recursos gramaticales se analizan en función de su papel en la construcción de sentidos en contextos sociales específicos.
se verifca que es/son correcta/s solo
En ese sentido, en términos de evaluación, una perspectiva formativa en el trabajo con literatura en ELE supone
Falsos amigos ortográficos las palabras que, coincidiendo en ambas lenguas en la ortografía, no coinciden o pueden no coincidir en la pronunciación; falsos amigos fonéticos las palabras que, no coincidiendo en la ortografía, sí lo hacen o pueden hacerlo en la fonética por una pronunciación errónea. Incluimos aquí aquellos que poseen diferentes acentuaciones y falsos amigos aparentes (palabras que no coinciden en la escritura ni en la pronunciación, pero que nos hacen recordar, por el parecido de la forma o por asociaciones léxicas varias, otros significados y sentidos).
Disponível em: https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/EPOS/article/view/17369/14828. Acesso em: 5 fev. 2026. (Adaptado).
Seleccione la alternativa que contempla los tres tipos de falsos amigos presentados en el texto: