Contributions of Recent Theories of Critical Literacies to ESP

ABSTRACT

A curriculum which develops students´ capacity to problematize contextual meanings was the premise to reconcile English for special purposes, contingencies and qualitative methodology in a community course named “Workshop of English for special purposes: readings for present-future in contemporary world”, offered by a public university. This was part of a broader research, which examined under-graduate students´ multiliteracies from the perspective of critical linguistic education. The course focused on meaning making through multimodal language, reflections upon complex diversities as expansion of the participants´ interpretations.

KEYWORDS:
Critical literacies; English for special purposes; contingencies; context