Racism is still exercised in various social, political and academic spheres remains to be deconstructed by constituting new discourses. One of these deconstructive discourses has been critical race theory which can regarded as a productive realm where the oppressed individuals or communities have found opportunity address socio-political issues take collective action necessary. This study aims ...

Critical Literacy (CL) has lately influenced English Language Teaching (ELT) in Brazil, mainly after the publication of National Guidelines for High School Teaching, and several practitioners have started to use CL perspectives their ELT contexts. Besides, Education been focus much research Brazil. Nonetheless, these alternative approaches not yet made way into testing assessment. This paper fo...

Abstract The paper reports on trends in language testing taking place over the years and aim at critical perspectives of promoting inclusion, equity justice. It begins with theories by Messick, Foucault Bourdieu, leading to (CLT) which focused consequences uses tests. Given power tests their detrimental effects questions were raised regarding impact individuals society. Based sociolinguistics a...

this research study employed a mixed-methods approach to investigate the test takers’ perceptions and anx- iety in relation to an english language proficiency test called community english program (cep). this study also evaluated the direct and semi-direct modes for speaking module of this test. to this end, 300 eng- lish as foreign language (efl) students were recruited in the study as test ta...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

improving teaching and assessment practice requires a change in the attitudes of both teachers and learners towards the new trends introduced in the field of testing. the reason for this is that no educational change can be effectively and efficiently implemented unless teachers are not only convinced but also willing to implement the new achievements. the present study aims to investigate one ...