It’s been over three years since we started the CL in ELT project and in spite of many workshops, events and publications the idea of a critical approach to ELT education still hasn’t reached most of our colleagues and their students where it matters the most, the classroom.
Changes always take time to happen and perhaps changes in education take even longer because they cannot be imposed and have to happen at teachers and students´ own pace. What we can do is to try to bring you as much information as possible and open the space for debate on the concepts we are proposing. That is exactly why we now published a very short and simple booklet with the most frequently asked questions about the nature of CL and how it fits into ELT.
As I wrote in the Foreword, it does not propose to give you definite answers. These are the answers we have at the moment, according to our own understanding. We hope they become the stating point of an interesting discussion in the ELT Community forum and also in your schools and workplaces with your colleagues.
