TY - JOUR AU - Niño Guanumen, María del Carmen PY - 2009/07/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Language as Power: Verbal Aggression Seen Through the Lens of Critical Applied Linguistics JF - Educación y Ciencia JA - rev.educien VL - 0 IS - 10 SE - BIBELIA DO - 10.19053/01207105.723 UR - https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/educacion_y_ciencia/article/view/723 SP - AB - <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt, mso-layout-grid-align: none,"><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">This article shares a language classroom </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">experience, in which language was used as </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">a form of exercising aggression. A real </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">example is used for describing the</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt, mso-layout-grid-align: none,"><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">experience and then, the situation is </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">analyzed from the perspective of critical </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">applied linguistics discipline. In the </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">classroom, language adopts different forms </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">and purposes and the language teacher </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">plays a very relevant role as mediator for </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">creating tolerant environments where the </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">respect for the human dignity takes place. </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">In this scenery (these arenas) critical </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">pedagogy, its theory and practice, is an </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">alternative to help language teachers to </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">reflect and to take actions about the use </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">and impact of the language in the school</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt,"><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">context. From a critical applied linguistics </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">approach, language class more than a </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">linguistic fact is a humanistic act that turns </span></span><span style="color: #231f20, font-family: Garamond, mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond,"><span style="font-size: small,">the classroom into a social practice.</span></span></p> ER -