Contributions of Recent Theories of Critical Literacies to ESP

ABSTRACT A curriculum which develops students´ capacity to problematize contextual meanings was the premise to reconcile English for special purposes, contingencies and qualitative methodology in a community course named “Workshop of English for special purposes: readings for present-future in contemporary world”, offered by a public university. This was part of a broader research, which examined under-graduate students´ multiliteracies from the perspective of critical linguistic education. The course focused on meaning making through multimodal language, reflections upon complex diversities as expansion of the participants´ interpretations.摘要： 某公立高校开设了一门社区课程，全称为"专用英语工作坊：当代世界面向当下与未来的阅读"。该课程以培养学生对语境意义进行问题化探究的能力为核心前提，旨在调和专用英语（English for Special Purposes, ESP）、偶发情境与质性研究方法三者间的关系。 本课程隶属于一项更宏观的研究项目，该项目从批判语言教育视角出发，探究了本科生的多元识读（multiliteracies）能力。课程核心聚焦于通过多模态语言开展意义建构，并将对复杂多样性的反思作为拓展参与者解读视角的有效路径。