Implications of Critical Language Studies for Language Studies and Foreign Language Education

Year 2024, Issue: 61, 2040 - 2057, 27.09.2024

Betül Altaş

https://doi.org/10.53444/deubefd.1415995

Abstract

Current issues such as global warming, climate change, human rights and social equality, and educational quality are all most debated issues in diverse discourses including education. Educators have the responsibility to enable their learners to critically think and question these debated issues for a sustainable world and must be equipped with the critical terminology and concepts to critique them in their classrooms. This critique requires an interdisciplinary approach to the hidden linguistic agenda in today’s global system. As a review study, this study offers the philosophical foundations of critical language studies with its roots in Critical Theory. This review casts light on what it means to be critical about language in the implication of language education, and why critical language studies are a requisite in educational settings and diverse discourses. Reviewing literature, key critical concepts and terms, and the significance of their implications for language education are provided in this study. Thus, this study may respond to the needs of scholars and individuals whose interests include language studies, and of foreign language learners, foreign language curriculum designers, and foreign language teachers and educators who seek alternative ways to transform their teaching and learning through critical use of language.

Keywords

Critical laguage studies, critique, critical theory, critical concepts and terms, foreign language education

Eleştirel Dil Çalışmalarının Dil Çalışmalarına ve Yabancı Dil Eğitimine Yansımaları

Abstract

Küresel ısınma, iklim değişikliği, insan hakları, sosyal eşitlik ve eğitimin kalitesi gibi güncel konular, eğitim de dahil olmak üzere çeşitli söylemlerde en çok tartışılan konulardır. Eğitimciler sürdürülebilir bir dünya için, öğrencilerinin bu tartışılan konuları eleştirel düşünmesini ve sorgulamasını sağlama sorumluluğuna sahiptir ve sınıflarında bu sorunları eleştirebilecek eleştirel terminoloji ve kavramlarla donanımlı olmalıdır. Bu eleştiri, günümüzün küresel sistemindeki örtük dil gündemine disiplinler arası bir yaklaşımı gerektirmektedir. Bir derleme çalışması olarak bu inceleme, kökleri Eleştirel Kuram'a dayanan eleştirel dil çalışmalarının felsefi temellerini sunmaktadır. Bu inceleme, dil eğitimi bağlamında dil hakkında eleştirel olmanın ne anlama geldiğine ve eğitim ortamlarında ve çeşitli söylemlerde eleştirel dil çalışmalarının neden gerekli olduğuna ışık tutmaktadır. Literatürü inceleyerek, başlıca eleştirel kavramlar ve terimler ve de onların dil eğitimindeki yansımalarının önemi verilmektedir. Dolayısıyla bu çalışma, ilgi alanları dil çalışmalarını içeren akademisyenlerin ve bireylerin ve dilin eleştirel kullanımı yoluyla öğretme ve öğrenmelerini dönüştürmenin alternatif yollarını arayan yabancı dil öğrenenlerin, yabancı dil müfredat tasarımcılarının ve yabancı dil öğretmenlerinin ve eğitimcilerin ihtiyaçlarına cevap verebilir.

Keywords

Eleştirel dil çalışmaları, eleştiri, eleştiri kuramı, eleştirel kavramlar ve terimler, yabancı dil eğitimi

Kritische Sprachstudien und ihre Implikationen für Sprachstudien und den Fremdsprachenunterricht

Abstract

Aktuelle Themen wie globale Erwärmung, Klimawandel, Menschenrechte und soziale Gleichheit sowie Bildungsqualität sind allesamt Themen, die in verschiedenen Diskursen, auch im Bildungsbereich, am meisten diskutiert werden. In diesem Kontext tragen Pädagogen eine besondere Verantwortung, ihre Lernenden dazu zu befähigen, diese Themen kritisch zu hinterfragen und zu reflektieren. Die Studie betont die Notwendigkeit, Pädagogen mit den erforderlichen kritischen Terminologien und Konzepten auszustatten, um eine fundierte Kritik in ihren Klassenzimmern zu ermöglichen. Diese Kritik erfordert einen interdisziplinären Ansatz für die verborgene sprachliche Agenda im heutigen globalen System. Als Übersichtsstudie bietet diese Studie die philosophischen Grundlagen der kritischen Sprachstudien mit ihren Wurzeln in der Kritischen Theorie. Diese Übersicht beleuchtet, was es bedeutet, kritisch mit Sprache umzugehen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Spracherziehung, und warum kritische Sprachstudien in Bildungsumgebungen und verschiedenen Diskursen unerlässlich sind. Eine Analyse der Literatur, der wichtigsten kritischen Konzepte und Begriffe sowie die Bedeutung ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Spracherziehung werden in dieser Studie dargelegt. Ziel ist es, den Bedürfnissen von Wissenschaftlern, Sprachstudieninteressierten, Fremdsprachenlernern, Lehrplangestaltern und Fremdsprachenlehrern gerecht zu werden, die alternative Wege suchen, um durch den kritischen Einsatz von Sprache das Lehren und Lernen zu transformieren.

Keywords

Kritische sprachstudien, kritik, kritische theorie, kritische konzepte und begriffe, fremdsprachenunterricht

Implications des études critiques de langues pour les études linguistiques et l'enseignement des langues étrangères

Abstract

Les enjeux actuels tels que le réchauffement climatique, le changement climatique, les droits de l’homme et l’égalité sociale, ainsi que la qualité de l’éducation, sont toutes les questions les plus débattues dans divers discours, y compris celui de l’éducation. Les enseignants ont la responsabilité de permettre à leurs apprenants de réfléchir et de remettre en question de manière critique ces questions débattues pour un monde durable et doivent être équipés de la terminologie et des concepts critiques pour les critiquer dans leurs salles de classe. Cette critique nécessite une approche interdisciplinaire de l’agenda linguistique caché dans le système mondial actuel. En tant qu'étude de synthèse, cette étude propose les fondements philosophiques de l’étude critique des langues en s’appuyant sur la théorie critique. Cette revue met en lumière ce que signifie être critique à l'égard de la langue dans l'implication de l'éducation aux langues, et pourquoi les études critiques des langues sont une condition nécessaire dans les contextes éducatifs et dans divers discours. Cette étude passe en revue la littérature, les concepts et termes critiques clés, ainsi que l'importance de leurs implications dans l'enseignement des langues. Ainsi, cette étude peut donc répondre aux besoins des chercheurs et des personnes qui s'intéressent aux études linguistiques , ainsi que des apprenants de langues étrangères, des concepteurs de programmes d'études en langues étrangères et des enseignants et éducateurs en langues étrangères qui cherchent des moyens alternatifs de transformer leur enseignement et leur apprentissage par une utilisation critique de langue.

Keywords

Études critiques des langues, critique, théorie critique, concepts et termes critiques, enseignement des langues étrangéres

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