ODİ İletişimi: Pedagojik Katalizörden ODİ Oyun Değiştiriciye

Year 2022, Volume: 39-1 , 207 - 218, 31.12.2022

Kurt Kohn

https://doi.org/10.52597/buje.1227010

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Keywords

İngiliz Dili Öğretimi (İDÖ), ODİ farkındalığı, pedagojik ortak dil yaklaşımı, BENİM İngilizcem, konuşmacı-öğrenci özgürlüğü

ELF Communication: From Pedagogical Catalyst to ELT Game Changer

Abstract

Raising speaker-learners’ and their teachers’ awareness of the possibilities and challenges of authentic ELF communication is a powerful catalyst in the process of understanding what it means to be out in the wild. But where do they turn for orientation when it comes to their own spoken and written productions? From a social constructivist perspective, I argue that ELT’s standard native speaker orientation is not the problem. Rather, what counts is what speaker-learners are allowed and encouraged to do with it. Against this backdrop, I propose a pedagogical lingua franca approach that moves ELF communication from a position outside ELT to a game changer position inside ELT and helps learners develop their own voice as emancipated non-native speakers of English.

Keywords

ELF awareness, ELF pedagogy, pedagogical lingua franca, social constructivism, speaker-learner emancipation

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