Student Empowerment through Critical Language Teacher Practice:a teaching activity

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Student Empowerment through Critical Language Teacher Practice:a teaching activity

Original language description

Working from the premise that dialogue constitutes reality as a fundament of human agency, my proposed teaching activity strives to improve students’ understanding of their agency in academic power relations and provide them with safe space to reconceive and realign it with their emergent critical consciousness. In applying a critical intercultural communication focus to intercultural dialogue, the aim of the activity converges with the overarching goal of the process of designing a new critical intercultural curriculum for linguistics in English-language teacher preparation at our department. The principal approach that permeates the proposed activity and will be adopted throughout the curriculum is critical applied linguistics (Pennycook) and critical language awareness (Fairclough), particularly in its aspect of constant questioning of assumptions. I also draw on autoethnography (Ellis et all.) that challenges canonical representations of culture and systematically analyses personal experience to contribute to a more socially just and conscious education (Freire; Giroux). Moreover, the critical pedagogy concept of learning through discourse and honouring lived experience (Boronski) is employed. The proposed teaching activity practises creating specific instructions to question personal assumptions and their impact in broader educational contexts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60201 - General language studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové journal of anglophone studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

2571-032X

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

52-59

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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