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Developing Critical Consciousness Through Film

Author(s) -

Justin Charlebois

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

tesl canada journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1925-8917

pISSN - 0826-435X

DOI - 10.18806/tesl.v26i1.133

Subject(s) - consciousness , consciousness raising , critical consciousness , pedagogy , field (mathematics) , psychology , focus (optics) , critical thinking , language education , mathematics education , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics , optics

Recent instructional trends in the field of TESOL emphasize teaching language through course content. The dual focus of content-based English instruction (CBI) provides a way for language teachers to engage learners with challenging material while increasing their linguistic proficiency. This article describes a unit in a CBI course at a Japanese university that was designed to promote the development of critical consciousness (Freire, 2005) through the analysis of a film. Students identified race- and gender-related issues, engaged in discussions about these issues, and finally wrote a critical response paper to the film.

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