Beyond monolithic English: Pop culture materials informing Global English Language Teaching

Bagni, Marco; Sumra, Zeenat

doi:10.1075/itl.21016.bag

Article published In:

Pop culture in applied linguistics: International perspectives: Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2 (2022)
Edited by Valentin Werner
[ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2] 2022
► pp. 286–310

Beyond monolithic English

Pop culture materials informing Global English Language Teaching

Marco Bagni | Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Zeenat Sumra | Technische Universität Chemnitz

The Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) paradigm has recently emerged as a comprehensive approach that aims to bring together innovative pedagogical proposals. This paper argues that pop culture materials such as telecinematic representations can purposefully be integrated into innovative GELT-oriented classroom practices. The use of this material can assist teachers in the double task of (i) raising the learners’ critical awareness of sociolinguistic variation and problematizing the stereotypical image of monolithic English; (ii) shifting the focus of the ELT classroom from prescriptive grammar and standard English towards fostering the learners’ receptive and communicative skills. This is a conceptual paper that gives several broad suggestions as to how to adopt pop culture materials into innovative GELT-oriented classroom practice and mentions a select few examples of said telecinematic representations.

Keywords: EFL, GELT, telecinematic representations, English language variation

Article outline

1.Introduction: Pop culture for GELT
2.Reflections on a paradigm shift towards GELT
3.Moving beyond monolithic English
4.Introducing English language variation through telecinematic representations
5.Telecinematic representations for GELT
6.Conclusion
Notes
References

Published online: 11 May 2022

https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.21016.bag

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