Teaching English in León: unraveling place, language, and ideology

In this TESOL internship, students develop their experiential understanding of the technical, personal, and practical elements involved in emergent language teaching in a “foreign” context. We pay special attention to the affordances of the local context, students’ linguistic and cultural knowledge, and other on-site resources. Some of the questions we will address include: what does English language teaching/learning look like in León? What ideologies and policies shape it? How does English learning interact with other languages in the local context? How can we, as teachers, create adequate conditions for students to learn English in critical and meaningful ways? What can place-based English teaching do to help us understand the complexities of our world? How do we meet students’ needs and still create opportunities to challenge English dominance through anticolonial English language pedagogies? 

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