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ELT Journal 2008 62(3):276-283; doi:10.1093/elt/ccn025
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

Transforming lives: introducing critical pedagogy into ELT classrooms

Ramin Akbari

Ramin Akbari is an Assistant Professor of TEFL at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, where he teaches practicum, language teaching methodology, and applied linguistics to MA and PhD students. His research is on teacher education and critical pedagogy

Email: akbari_ram{at}yahoo.com

Received for publication 1 August 2007.
  Abstract

Critical pedagogy (CP) in ELT is an attitude to language teaching which relates the classroom context to the wider social context and aims at social transformation through education. In spite of its great potential, however, the practical implications of CP have not been well appreciated and most of the references to the term have been limited to its conceptual dimensions. The present paper highlights the applications of CP for L2 classrooms and provides hints as to how L2 teaching can result in the improvement of the lives of those who are normally not considered in ELT discussions.

Final revised version received August 2007


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