Political Dimensions of Language // Participatory Approach
It is not the content of subject-matter texts, but rahter it is content that comes from issues of concern to students. The Participatory Approach is based on a growing awareness of the role that education, in general, and language education, specifically, have in creating and perpetuating power dynamics in society.
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As a social process, it is assumed that learning is best served by collaboration between teacher and students and among students. According to Vygotsky, it is through social interaction that higher order thinking emerges.
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Teachers are not mere conveyor belts delivering language through inflexible prescribed and proscribed behaviours...
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Language thus becomes the medium for learning content (Mohan, 1986)
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Research has shown that there is a degree of shared pedagogical knowledge among language teachers that is different from that of teachers of other subjects.
Political Dimensions of Language // Plurilingualism and Multicompetence
...according to Cook (2002), the goal of language teaching should be successful language use and multicompetence, not trying to get students to imitate monolingual native-speaker use.
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