Read the quote and choose the CORRECT statement that complet...
Read the quote and choose the CORRECT statement that completes the given sentence.
“Throughout this paper I have been arguing that we have to go further than finding ways of improving
techniques to create “real life” situations in the classroom. Teachers as decision-makers and agents need to
consider the identities that are being (re)constructed by their pedagogical practices and choices. Considering
that those identities are being shaped anyway, it is important that teachers become aware of the effects
of their actions. One of the possible identities is that of a global citizen: not someone who knows many
languages but someone who deals with the conflicts inherent in communicative events made possible by a
language that has acquired a global dimension” (GIMENEZ, 2007, p. 27).
According to Gimenez, globalization and the spread of English around the world have posed new challenges to
language teachers because: