Encouraging Critical Pedagogy in Thai ELT Classrooms
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The Thai students’ English proficiency problems nowadays reflect an inadequate encouragement of English context varieties for Thai learners. This consequently causes a limitation of critical pedagogy awareness in Thailand. This article aims to foster the English classrooms' critical contexts and activities via critical pedagogy to fulfill the ELT omission in Thailand.
The objectives of the article are;1) to promote the guideline of applying critical pedagogy and EIL in English classrooms, 2) to provide the samples of critical context used in the critical pedagogy, and 3) to state the direction of critical pedagogy in Thai ELT classrooms. And the implement of critical English pedagogy has been intimated as an important steer, especially for non-native English speaker classrooms, to enrich Thai learners’ English learning effectively.
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เนื้อหาและข้อมูลที่ตีพิมพ์ลงในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นข้อคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบโดยตรงของผู้เขียนซึ่งกองบรรณาธิการวารสารไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วยหรือร่วมรับผิดชอบใดๆ
บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสาร หากบุคคลหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อต้องอ้างอิงวาสาร
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