MONTE MOR, Walkyria. Foreign Languages Teaching, Education and the New Literacies Studies: Expanding views. GONÇALVE, G. R; et alii (orgs). New Challenges in Language and Literature. Belo Horizonte: Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, 2009.p 177-189.

What should be improved in the teaching of foreign languages in elementary and secondary schools and in Letras programs in the universities?

Methodological procedures. Inappropriate textbooks. Lack of discipline of students and their

parents’ participation in the Education Teaching conditions provided by the

schools, or by the government. Inadequacy of pedagogical

orientations/parameters provided by the federal government and the State Secretaries of Education.

Insufficient and inappropriate teacher education given at the universities.

http://www.afternoondc.in/education-careers/urgent-revamp-of-education-system-vital/article_33667

http://www.downmemorylane.me.uk/Randalstown%20G1.htm

Proposal of change in the focused teaching environments (OCEM-LE) because of social changes occurred as a consequence of technological advances that influence and reconstruct language and discourse, as well as social communication.

http://www.jasonegan.net/2008/10/10/social-media-in-the-classroom/

Social and epistemological changes in the digital society

Replacement of repetitive and underskilled work standards

Multi-skilled workers (diversified experiences and flexibility)

Empowered, critical, creative and innovative workers Decision making, initiative and choice making jobs Flat hierarchy practices Current representation of what is “civic” (multilayered

and diversified indentities in the multilayered social communities)

Social and private spaces have gradually turned thinner (mass media culture, global commodity culture and communication and information networks)

Networked society (society transforms itself with the presence of technology)

Conventional epistemology (reproductive education-principles of reduction and grading)

Digital epistemology / performance epistemology- another way of knowledge construction (knowledge highly stimulated in the user’s interaction with the internet; “bricolage”, “collage”, “montage”- mental processes that require more capacity for creation, and not only for reproducing models)

http://library.uncc.edu/node/801

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Changes in teaching and education

Necessity to reexamine practices (the current moment reveals a binary dispute between reproduction in the teaching learning process and creation, creativity and critique)

Public pedagogy (Giroux)- cultural policy present in society within, for instance, television, programs, series, advertisings, choice of pictures in news building (power dynamics imbued with educative strength)

The philosophy of education-pedagogy-practice relationship (Saviani)

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http://sussfamily.com/

New literacies and the teaching of foreign languages

The literate nowadays is the individual who is able to use reading and writing within a social practice.

Capacity of inference, perception of ironies, interpretation of the between-the-lines message, expressing their own critique, relating the content of a text with a social context or reality

New literacies area- visual literacy, digital literacy, multicultural literacy and critical literacy (Cervetti, Pardales and Damico).

Teaching of reading Teaching cultural modes of seeing,

describing and explaining Understand textual representations,

values and ideologies, discourses Taking positioning Having views of the world Understanding the relation between

knowledge and power distribution in a society

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85321

The teaching of foreign

languages must be seen as part of a larger educational commitment.

The foreign language teaching should expand from the linguistic and instrumental focus to the educational one. It should include the redefinition of citizenship and the expansion of cultural concepts that foster plurality and diversity.

http://cunysps.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/culture-and-the-beauty-of-diversity/