Description
Rather than viewing language learning as solely a cognitive process, researchers today believe that using a socio-critical perspective creates equity within the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) community. These approaches challenge traditional paradigms by examining how social structures, ideologies, and classroom practices influence learners’ experiences and opportunities. The importance of integrating socio-critical frameworks into EFL research highlights the potential to foster more inclusive, reflective, and socially responsive language education.
Pioneering Socio-Critical Approaches in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Research explores the change in traditional teaching of EFL. This book contemplates the issues and challenges with traditional teaching using real world examples. Covering topics such as classroom practice, language learning, and translanguaging, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, educators, researchers, faculty, policymakers, administrators, and more.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Pedro Férez Mora (Ed.)
Pedro Antonio Férez-Mora
is an Associate Professor at the University of Murcia, where he lectures on didactics, educational innovation, and literature- and cinema-based approaches to EFL. His research interests include multiliteracies pedagogy, queer theory, and bilingual education. He has published extensively and is the principal investigator, together with colleague Yvette Coyle, of the competitive research project called “Integrating a Cinema-and-Literature-Based Pedagogy of Multiliteracies in English Language Teaching in Primary, Secondary, and University Education (MULTILIT)”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.
Yvette Coyle (Ed.)
Yvette Coyle
is a Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching Methods at the University of Murcia. Her research interests include second language teaching and learning with young learners, genre pedagogy and digital multimodal composing. She has published extensively in international journals and published volumes and is the author of two books on task-based language teaching in primary EFL.