Values & Principles in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

1. Values & Principles in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

2. Cognitive learning Reflects the substance of fields such as education, sociology, psychology, politics. LANGUAGE

3. Language teachers usually focus on the capacity of learning and overlook the hidden messages.

4. Does language reflect the concepts – messages or does it reinforce and create new codes of meaning?

5. Concepts, messages, codes form social norms. social patterns social norms

6. concepts power social norms

7. Chain of power Who imposes power • on a country? • on a community? • on a group of people? • on the family? • on the classroom?

8. Power and Educational Material Publishing house Teachers Students publishers – editors Teachers are decision makers. Teachers have the responsibility of choice. Teachers impose power on students.

9. Teachers should be critical thinkers as they play a major role in reproducing or reinforcing social norms.

10. What if I were a celebrity? Meet the Stars

11. The message • You are worthy only if famous. • You are worthy when you exert the least effort, to gain fame and fortune. • What remains for the rest of us is to confine ourselves to being mere observers of the rich and the famous.

12. Leonardo Di Caprio – Hair:short, blondEyes: blueCharacter: kind Emma Bunton – Hair: longEyes: blueCharacter: friendly Jamie Lee Curtis – Hair: short, brown Eyes: blueCharacter: clever Facial features reveal your personality! Smile, sneer, laugh, pout!

13. The message • Attractive men and women are blonde and have got blue eyes. • People who are blonde and have got blue eyes are kind and friendly. • Blonde women aren’t clever and have no need to be. • Clever women are not blonde.

14. I’m your number one fan Designer clothes are a must! (…) But I don’t agree, no, no not at all!I make my own dress code, my own set of rules!

15. The message • I know the song. This will be fun to learn. • It’s cool to be a fan. • What must I do, how must I act to be a real fan?

16. “Making a Million”(millionaires under thirty) Isaak Asimov

17. The message • You are worthy only if you’re making millions and are under thirty. • My hard-working parents can’t be worth much. I’m not worth much. • My teachers aren’t worth much. Otherwise they wouldn’t be my teachers. They would be celebrities.

18. She is old. She can’t dance. She is old. She travels a lot and has a lot of fun.

19. The message • Old is bad. • Old is unhappy. • Old is boring.

20. My family and fashion “… in fact she is the most fashionable person in my family…” “Poor Carol. She is a fashion victim!”

21. The message • You are successful only if you are fashionable. • I must be fashionable and buy all the latest trendy clothes. • I need a lot of money. • If I’m fashionable everyone is going to love me. • I must do what fashion magazines tell me to.

22. My grandma is 60. My granddad is 67. My mum is a teacher. My dad is a doctor. (John) I love football. My sister plays the cello. Mary is an architect. Her daughter is following in her mother’s footsteps.

23. The message • I don’t have such a family! There must be something wrong with my family. • My mother is older than my father. That is not normal. • I only have a father. I am deprived compared to others. • Boys like football and girls like the arts.

24. 20, 30, 40, 50 The only way is up! HILLSIDE PRESS

25. The message • You can be successful if you are a woman. • You can also lead a happy family life if you are successful. • The older you are, the better it gets. • Life doesn’t end when you are no longer young. • Life is fascinating.

26. English Language Teachers are decision makers. Let's make the best decision for a better society.

27. Educating learners for a BETTER WORLD !