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DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY IN THE ENGLISH AS ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: SUSTAINED CONTENT-BASED TEACHING APPROACH GROUNDED ON THE EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF WORK PROJECTS

Abstract

We present a teaching proposal for English as Additional Language, adopting the concepts of discourse (language as social practice in discourse genres) as constitutive of social life and, thus, essential to issues pertaining to the human experience. We associate concepts from the Educational perspective of work projects (HERNÁNDEZ, 2014) and from the Sustained content-based teaching approach (LYSTER, 2018), exemplifying our discussion with an interdisciplinary project, proposed as a possible approach from which a variety of situated pedagogical proposals can depart to attend to different teaching contexts. We indicate challenges and advantages of the appropriation of the concept of discourse genre, considering present discussions in the field of Applied Linguistics and possibilities for language education.

Keywords
Applied Linguistics; Discourse, Education and Society; Discourse Genres; Language Teaching and Learning; English as an Additional Language

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