WiSe 22/23: Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik: Controversial and Critical Issues in ELT (Schwerpunkt GYM/ISS/GS)
Christian Ludwig
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Taboos are not a new phenomenon. Yet, taboos change over time as social customs change, discard old taboos, and create new ones. What does not change, however, is how taboos regulate the way in which we live together in different communities and how they influence our behaviours. Notwithstanding the ubiquity of all sorts of taboos in daily life, many of them do not seem to find their way into foreign language classrooms easily.
Taking this as a starting point, this class looks at how taboos and controversial topics can be integrated into the foreign language classroom. It first investigates the concept of critical pedagogy in general and critical (foreign) language pedagogy more specifically. It then discusses taboos in the context of critical language pedagogy, arguing that despite numerous challenges, the foreign language classroom provides the perfect space for discussing some controversial topics with students – primarily by exploring a variety of different texts dealing with taboos instead of personalising a topic, which would be more common in communicative approaches.
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Fri, 2023-01-20 16:00 - 18:00Regular appointments