Discourse and society in the English as additional language classroom: a sustained content-based teaching approach grounded on the educational perspective of work projects

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2022.e82527

Abstract

We present a teaching proposal for English as an Additional Language, adopting the concepts of discourse (language as social practice in discourse genres) as constitutive of social life and, thus, essential to issues pertaining to the human experience. We mobilize and interrelate concepts from the Educational perspective of work projects (HERNÁNDEZ, 2014) and Sustained content-based teaching approach (LYSTER, 2018), exemplifying our theoretical discussion with an interdisciplinary project, as a possible approach from which a variety of situated pedagogical proposals can depart to attend to different teaching contexts. We indicate challenges and advantages of the appropriation of the concept of discourse genre, considering present discussions in the field of Applied Linguistics and possibilities for language education. 

Author Biographies

DESIREE MOTTA ROTH, Federal University at Santa Maria

DÉSIRÉE MOTTA ROTH is a Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, where she has lectured on language education and critical discourse/genre analysis from both a theoretical and an applied perspective since 1984 and has been scientific coordinator of LALER-Laboratory for Research and Teaching of Reading and Writing since 1998.  She has been a commissioned Researcher for the Brazilian National Council for the Development of Science and Technology (CNPq) since 1998 and has had a longstanding commitment to researching and publishing about language education, discourse and literacies. Served as Coordinator (2010-2008 and 2008-2006) of the Applied Linguistics Caucus of the Brazilian National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Literature and Linguistics and as Vice President (2010-2012) and President (2012-2013) of ALSFAL-Association of Functional Systemic Linguistics of Latin America. Her publications include chapters and books such as “Escrevendo na universidade: pedagogia de produção textual orientada para o contexto acadêmico” (2018); “Literacidades académico-científicas como procesos socialmente aprendidos” (2018); Produção textual na universidade (2010, with G. R. Hendges), and a number of articles such as “Discurso de professores e estudantes sobre letramentos acadêmicos em robótica” (2019, with Selbach, H.); “Academic literacy: evaluativeness and social sanction on authorship and scientific integrity” (2018, with Selbach, H.; Schmidt, A.); “Letramentos acadêmicos: avaliatividade e sanção social sobre autoria e integridade científica” (2018, with Selbach, H.; Carvalho, A.); “A short cartography of genre studies in Brazil” (2015, with V. Heberle).

HELENA VITALINA SELBACH, Federal University at Santa Maria

Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). PhD in Applied Linguistics (Federal University of Santa Maria, 2018), Master in Applied Linguistics  (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2014). During his PhD, she collaborated with the Academic/Scientific Literacy and Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Knowledge Production project (MOTTA-ROTH, 2014-2018) as a research assistnt in connection with GRPesq/CNPq Language as a social practice. Currently, she is a collaborator of the research projects 1) Virtual Laboratory for Online Teaching and Learning of Languages ​​(LabEon): research, teaching and extension at UFSM and 2) FELICE/ CNPq - Teacher training and language teaching for children at the State University of Londrina. Collaborates with extension projects 1) LabEon: Distance Learning Languages ​​via the UFSM University Extension and 2) TEIA - Teachers of English in Action - INTEGRATED PROJECT FOR TRAINING (INITIAL AND CONTINUOUS) FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS at the State University of Londrina. She is part of the committee of the Proficiency Test in Reading in a Foreign Language (TESLLE) at UFSM, collaborating as a producer in the English area. She has experience in teaching and learning English and Portuguese, having worked in open courses, private schools, companies and as a self-employed person. He lived in Osaka/Japan from 2004 to 2011, where she taught English and Portuguese to students of different age groups. Her areas of interest, inscribed in Applied Linguistics, refer to literacy practices, teaching and learning additional languages, and initial and continuing education of language teachers.

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