KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Gavin C. Farrell, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Expanding Critical Literacy with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Abstract
Are your students global citizens? This presentation will look at ways how the field of Critical Literacy can be expanded by using Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). CLIL can be utilized in innovative and engaging ways to augment and expand Critical Literacy, which focuses heavily on reading. Critical Literacy is about empowering the disempowered, including the disenfranchised, and examining other concepts of social justice. Students' communicative competence can be expanded by linking social issues to writing assignments. Student writing provides an interesting representation of intertextuality. That is, their research sources come from a variety of fields, not just academia, but government policies, court decisions, and statistics from any number of fields. The social activism that can be as a global citizen almost unlimited.
Biographicals
Gavin C. Farrell teaches in the Department of English Linguistics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Originally from Windsor, Canada he has worked internationally for over 20 years. His research interests are young learners, critical literacy, teaching newspaper editorials, and the utility of vocational colleges in South Korea.
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