Discutindo a língua inglesa como língua franca

Abstract

This Didactic-Pedagogical Project targets high school students from public or private schools and presents as guiding question “How the English Language reached the status of Global Língua Franca?” in order to provoke students to reflect and discuss about the evolution of the English Language in Brazil and in other parts of the globe, the concepts of Lingua Franca, the interaction of the English Language in other regions and different perspectives of the role of the English Language as imperialist, neutral or democratic. The justification for the Project can be found: i) in the importance of the English Language teaching/learning, its insertion in our society and its global reach, also; ii) in the development of competences that enable students to carry a critical attitude and to be aware of the relation of English Language learning and transcultural interaction, and finally, iii) in the evidence of the growth of cyberspace interactions among individuals from different cultures, creating knowledge and using the English Language as Lingua Franca or in a multilinguist approach. The infrastructure requires at least on computer per group of students, who may use their own devices to access the required digital tools: Paper.li and Voki.