Frequently asked questions about CL

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 [...]

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Equal Opportunites and Diversity

It was the first time I spent my birthday in London. Actually, I wasn’t in town with the purpose to celebrate it, but it happened that I was invited by the organisers of the Equal Opportunities and Equalities Seminar to present in the event and it took place on 20-21 February. I’m really thankful for [...]

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Where is it leading to?

This is one of the cliché questions in our Critical Literacy in ELT project. Now after almost 3 years I have stepped down from the coordination and Nella de la Fuente is the incoming coordinator and will reamin in office till the next Braz-Tesol Conference in July 2010.
I think I can say that we have achieved [...]

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Critical Literacy in ELT – Year III

You have to be careful when you put your feet out of your door because if you don’t mind your steps, you don’t know where they might lead you to.
This is more or less what Bilbo Baggings says to Frodo and I just thought how well it fits our CL project. When we started it [...]

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Another year goes by

The second year of the Critical Literacy in ELT Project is coming to an end and it was a quite busy one!!
We had a number of events: the APIRS Pre-conference event in Porto Alegre, the 5th Casa Thomas Jefferson Seminar in Brasilia, the 7th South-Cone Tesol convention in Buenos Aires, the Teachers Training Course in [...]

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Down the coast, up the Andes

It was my second time in Peru and in a certain way it was much more enjoyable than the first because I could see people I had met before and I could also realise how my first visit had created some bonds between us and how CL and the project have been keeping us connected. [...]

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Second pack of materials and more…

The second pack with four other sets of materials is already published in the British Council Brazil ELT Online Community. It’s just fit that it has happened now in February when we were having a series of three CL seminars in Peru, where three of the four sets were produced. Thanks a lot to the [...]

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CL in ELT first pack of materials

One of the objectives of the Critical Literacy in ELT project in its second year was to publish sets of materials that teachers could use in the classroom and adapt taking into consideration their teaching contexts. After six months working on it we are now publishing the first pack with four sets of materials written [...]

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It’s December (again)!

Yes, it’s Christmas again and soon it will be another year. Shame on me, I just realised that I had abandoned this blog for almost three months. Lots of things have happened  that contributed to this, but there is no excuse; so I’m taking a bit of time to catch up here. This is a summary [...]

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Theory & Practice

Have you ever found yourself with your head in your hands trying to make sense of something you have said or done that does not match the idea you have of your-self? Have you ever experienced the disturbing realisation that you have said something that you would never say if you were acting as your normal [...]

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