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The Participatory Approach to Language Teaching

Demonstration

Background

Methodology/Discussion

Principles

Role of Student/Teacher

  • Based on content, which is taken from students' lives, experiences, and critical analysis of social and political issues
  • Strong version of the Communicative Approach
  • Teacher goals are to empower students through language and raise political awareness, helping them advocate for themselves
  • Students' native language is valued
  • The teacher takes the role of a guide, to help the students engage in dialogue and problem solving
  • The students gradually take on more power, and become their own advocates through education.
  • Collaboration between students is encouraged
  • Students are encouraged to self-evaluate and self-correct, to take responsibility for their own learning
  • Developed from the work of Paulo Freire in the late 1950s
  • Freire criticized the "banking model" of education, and advocated for learners to co-create knowledge
  • Based on the idea that education has a role in shaping power dynamics, and perpetuating a societal hierarchy
  • "Language is never neutral" (Pedagogy of the Oppressed); it is an instrument of power
  • Literacy is key to gaining entry to the culture of power
  • Language education can be used to help people become aware of and to solve the issues in their society and in their lives

Topic: Inequality in Education

  • Introduction/dialoguing
  • Problem posing
  • Creating a text (manifesto)
  • Student feedback/revisions

Techniques

Skills emphasized

  • Dialoguing
  • Teacher and students engage in dialogue about issues students lives and issues of power in society
  • Problem Posing
  • Teacher identifies a problem based on dialoguing, and students work collaboratively to solve the problem. Teacher empowers students to take action in their own lives and in the world
  • Literacy is stressed, particularly with regard to multiple literacies and literacy as it relates to power
  • Self-evaluation, self-assessment and self-correction are valued
  • Oral communication skills are also developed through dialoguing and collaboration
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