Open AccessMeaning and direction in foreign language teaching
Author(s) -
Luis Carlos Estrada Naranjo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
praxis pedagógica/praxis pedagógica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2590-8200
pISSN - 0124-1494
DOI - 10.26620/uniminuto.praxis.5.6.2005.22-29
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , foreign language , sociolinguistics , linguistics , foreign language teaching , praxeology , mathematics education , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , epistemology , programming language , philosophy
This document explores the possibility to link to foreign lan - guage teaching practice in the classroom, two streams of theo - retical elements set by late research on neurosciences about the cognitive processes underling learning, and the elements from sociolinguistics dealing with languages in contact. The objective of the paper is to consider those elements as an en - riching source for didactics and as an alternative to practice based on recipe -like activities well designed to different settings. Reflective teaching is presented though, as the empirical tool to make language education a real part of praxeology, in which effective teaching is connected to meaningful and contextualized didactics.