For linguistic education as a practice of freedom: critical interculturality in the English language classroom
Language education. Critical interculturality. Applied Linguistics.
Embedded on a transgressive perspective of language education, this research is based on the principles of Applied Linguistics (PENNYCOOK, 2006; MOITA LOPES, 2013) on Decolonial Pedagogy (HOOKS, 2013)) and on Interculturality to critically analyze how questions and arguments in the enunciative-dialogical perspective impact the development of intercultural savoirs and practices in the dialogue between international English-speaking students from two different courses at a university in British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada; namely, English for Academic Purposes and Global Citizenship Through English. We examined the interactions over two weeks of classes and analysed two semi-structured interviews with the instructors of the two groups in the light of Discourse Analysis based on a critical paradigm, seeking to reframe the idea of an intercultural model for the construction of intercultural ways of knowing in English language teaching, aiming at language education committed to a decolonial praxis, of belonging and freedom.