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Language Learning and Societal Values

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Critical applied linguistics argues that we learn language socially and interactively in real contexts. Computer and information technology has enabled the use of webistes and other online materia ... ls (attached) for language learning in the virtual space. Like printed reading textbooks, language learning websites often act as a central agent for disseminating knowledge from a particular perspective. Critical Discourse Analysis would suggest that all texts and materials carry particular messages about how society as well as people is perceived and constructed, and when they are developed by governments or other agencies, these messages may be quite purposefully and carefully selected. Through the ideologies embedded in the discourse, texts often tell us something about the attitudes, values, power relationships and orientation of both the target (English language) and home society or the online community in the case of virtual space. In this assessment item, you will examine text materials from websites to uncover some of these issues. You can use Critical Discourse Analytical framework used in written or spoken text or discourse analysis to analyse web-based discourses as well. The work of Fairclough (1995, 2002) is a starting point for CDA while Luke (1988, 1995, 2002) and Liu (2003) provide examples of how CDA can be applied to these materials. [Show More]

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