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Download full textVan Viege, Saskia; Lau, Sunny Man Chu – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This Perspectives article proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantle mono/lingualism, inviting a more dynamic and expansive view of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedMcKay, Sandra – Modern Language Journal, 1977
Knowing what, when and how to say something constitutes what sociolinguists call the "rules of speaking." Suggestions for using the three dimensions of language variation--setting, mode and participants--in teaching English to speakers of other languages are offered. Hopefully an awareness of systematic language variation will be fostered. (AMH)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Induction, Language Instruction
