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Date Posted: 21:56:13 09/04/10 Sat Hi everybody! The following is just a sample of our argumentative essay, please feel free to comment, suggest, change,etc. It hasn't been finished yet, it still needs ( at least 100 more words, more quotations, revision).Ok, I'm waiting for your replies The Argumentative Essay Brazilian English Language teachers should become more familiar with Critical Literacy theory, in order to teach beyond communicative competences. They should also create and adapt materials, for then to cause a more critical classroom enviroment. Bcecause there is a tendency for English teachers to create activities which main goals are to entertain students and to stimulate the communicative abilities such as: reading, writing, listening and comprehension, although this is the main job of an English teacher, it should not be the only way that it is conducted. It seems that English language teachers in Brazil are very open-mind to explore other cultural context in their classroom, but they usually tend to concentrate in the superficial differences of other cultures and avoid exploring serious issues like gender differences, social inequality and racism. The role of English teachers in Brazil differs from the aim of critical pedagogy. The term Literacy refers to the capacity that one has to interact with written texts in different genres and to participate effectively in literacy practices shared by the same members of a community in which one is inserted (Soares, 1998). Thus, if the very notion of literacy suggests that one is able to participate in various types of experiences that involve reading and writing, Critical Literacy requires that one is able to use language in a critical way. In other words, he or she is able to do a reinterpretation of his or her reality, but free of ideologies imposed by others. According to Scholes (1985) the pedagogical practice which adopts the principles of Critical Literacy, enables students to have their own way of reading the world, and trough that teachers become the helpers and encouragers of this process. For Freire (1991) critical literacy implies a less naïve reader and a reader who has the power and ability to choose and criticize what is offered. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |