Problematizing one’s own epistemological stances
Apart from pennycook’s ideas, in my opinion, promoting the problematizing spirit can be done by identifying where we fit in these tentative four epistemological categories:(1) I know that I know;(2) I know that I don’t know;(3) I don’t know that I know; and (4)I don’t know that I don’t know.They are not necessarily sequaenced as...
English as a Foreign Language
The final context for tha study of interlanguage phenomena is the learning of English in countries where English is studied as a foreign language in formal settings (such as the school), and where English is not normally a language of instruction but simply a branch of study. English is Japan, France, Indonesia, Russia and so...
