1. MONTE MOR, Walkyria. Foreign Languages Teaching, Education and the New Literacies Studies:
Expanding views. GONÇALVE, G. R; et alii (orgs). New Challenges in Language and Literature. Belo
Horizonte: Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, 2009.p 177-189.
What should be improved in the teaching of
foreign languages in elementary and
secondary schools and in Letras programs
in the universities?
 Methodological procedures.
 Inappropriate textbooks.
 Lack of discipline of students and their parents’
participation in the Education
 Teaching conditions provided by the schools, or
by the government.
 Inadequacy of pedagogical
orientations/parameters provided by the
federal government and the State Secretaries
of Education.
http://www.afternoondc.in/education-careers/urgent-revamp-of-education-system-vital/article_33667
 Insufficient and inappropriate teacher education
given at the universities.

2. Proposal of change in the focused
teaching environments (OCEM-LE)
http://www.downmemorylane.me.uk/Randalstown%20G1.htm
because of social changes occurred
as a consequence of technological
advances that influence and
reconstruct language and discourse,
as well as social communication.
http://www.jasonegan.net/2008/10/10/social-media-in-the-classroom/

3. Social and epistemological changes in the digital society
 Replacement of repetitive and underskilled work standards
 Multi-skilled workers (diversified experiences and flexibility)
 Empowered, critical, creative and innovative workers
 Decision making, initiative and choice making jobs
 Flat hierarchy practices
 Current representation of what is “civic” (multilayered and
diversified indentities in the multilayered social
communities)
 Social and private spaces have gradually turned thinner
(mass media culture, global commodity culture and
communication and information networks)
 Networked society (society transforms itself with the
presence of technology) http://library.uncc.edu/node/801
 Conventional epistemology (reproductive education-
principles of reduction and grading)
 Digital epistemology / performance epistemology- another
way of knowledge construction (knowledge highly
stimulated in the user’s interaction with the internet;
“bricolage”, “collage”, “montage”- mental processes that
require more capacity for creation, and not only for
reproducing models)

4. Changes in teaching and education
Classroom practice  Necessity to reexamine practices (the
current moment reveals a binary
dispute between reproduction in the
teaching learning process and creation,
Social historical and cultural context
creativity and critique)
 Public pedagogy (Giroux)- cultural
policy present in society within, for
Pedagogy instance, television, programs, series,
advertisings, choice of pictures in news
building (power dynamics imbued with
educative strength)
Phylosophy of education
 The philosophy of education-pedagogy-
practice relationship (Saviani)
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5. New literacies and the teaching of foreign
languages
 The literate nowadays is the individual who is able to
use reading and writing within a social practice.
 Capacity of inference, perception of ironies,
interpretation of the between-the-lines message,
expressing their own critique, relating the content of
a text with a social context or reality
 New literacies area- visual literacy, digital literacy,
multicultural literacy and critical literacy (Cervetti,
Pardales and Damico).
 Teaching of reading
 Teaching cultural modes of seeing, describing
and explaining
 Understand textual representations, values
and ideologies, discourses
 Taking positioning
 Having views of the world
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.
php?t=85321
 Understanding the relation between
knowledge and power distribution in a society

6.  The teaching of foreign
languages must be seen as
part of a larger educational
commitment.
 The foreign language teaching
should expand from the
linguistic and instrumental
focus to the educational one.
It should include the
redefinition of citizenship and
the expansion of cultural
concepts that foster plurality http://cunysps.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/culture-and-the-beauty-of-diversity/
and diversity.