(5) A little bit about the project

The title of the approved project is "The practicality of English as a lingua franca critical pedagogy", and as I said, it will be supervised by Dr. Graham Crookes at the Univesity of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu, United States of America.  Just to make readers familiar with my intetions, as the titles makes it clear, this work is about English as a global language education and critical pedagogy. It is an attempt to extend the work I conducted in my PhD research, entitled English as an international language: for an intercultural critical pedagogy (Siqueira 2008), which addressed this complex theme from a more theoretical point of view, working with Brazilian teachers, their assumptions, values, and beliefs towards the central position they occupy as educators who may not be fully aware of the crucial role they play nowadays into developing students’ intercultural competence in a world of translingual and transcultural flows and increasing mobility (Pennycook 2007; Risager 2007; Blommaert 2010; Canagarajah 2013).