EIL Summary

Are "EIL" and "Lingua Franca" synonyms?

• TRUE

• FALSE

According to García (2013), EFL and ESL are:

• Updated; they don't reflect learners' purposes

• Updated; they reflect learners' purposes

• Outdated; they reflect learners' purposes

• Outdated; they don't reflect learners' purposes

Following Cannaharajah (2013): Fluency for the SE perspective is equal:

• To shuttle between language communities

• To be native-like

• To use English only for academic goals

• To be highly trained in linguistics

Following Cannaharajah (2013): Fluency for the WE perspective is equal:

• To supervise language varieties

• To narrow language varieties

• To acknowledge language varieties

• To scope language varieties

Are pedagogical implications of WE:

• Code-switching, speech accommodation and interpersonal strategies.

• Oversimplified language interaction, linguistic borrowing, pedagogy of creoles

• Code-mixing, plurilinguism and antidisestablishmentarianism.

• Language awareness, sociolinguistic sensitivity and negotiation skills.

For Pennycook (2017) voice is:

• Knowledge of political nature

• A political arena

• A place for learners' agency

• A dogmatic prescription

Are part of Giroux’s (1991) nine principles of critical pedagogy:

• Ethics is central in education

• Claims of truth need to be reformulated

• Curriculum is by any means untouchable

• Teachers are transformative intellectuals.

How can we avoid “dogmatic prescriptions” in critical pedagogy in ELT classrooms?

• By prohibiting ideologies.

• By institutionalizing critical pedagogy.

• By imposing what's necessary.

• By avoiding the establishment of absolutes.