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What is Authentic Language Use

Chapter 12
International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
A key to language learning that implies the use of the target language in a purposeful way in order to make the learning process meaningful and effective, and to achieve positive outcomes.
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An Approach for Providing LGBTI+ Education and Bridging the Language Gap: Integrating ESoPC into EFL Teacher Training
Francisco Javier Palacios Hidalgo (University of Córdoba, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch012
Abstract
Intercultural education is acquiring great importance in today's education; among its considered elements, it is also starting to address gender/sexual identity as a way to counterattack prejudices and intolerant attitudes towards LGTBI+ people. However, it is still necessary to reconsider how to deal with these concepts from teacher training in an effective way so as to prepare these professionals to develop their work in an inclusive way. Teachers of English as a Foreign Language are ideal for addressing such concepts as the area allows relationships with several dimensions of life (e.g., literature, art, television). These teachers have to face the necessity to include LGTBI+ in their teaching practice, and to fight the language gap caused by social and economic disparities. This chapter revises how including the ESoPC approach in English teacher training helps integrate LGBTI+ issues to educate future generations in respect towards gender/sexual diversity and bridge the language gap.
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