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Most English language teaching (ELT) aims to get students to match the standard norms of the language with mismatches, or errors, being judged as wrong and penalized. The limited impact of this traditional approach is apparent in countries like Thailand where the majority of students, despite having studied English for at least 12 years, can understand very little, communicate even less and have such little confidence in their English ability that they actively avoid the language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s time to shift perspectives and try something different, and two recent movements suggest a possible direction. First, the English as a lingua franca movement argues that, in many real-world contexts, the ability to convey your meaning is far more important than being accurate, implying that the focus of teaching should be strategies for using the language, such as how to pre-empt communication breakdowns, rather than the traditional goal of producing appropriate language forms. Second, within linguistic philosophy, the idea of languaging emphasizes doing things with language and so views English as a process, not a product to be copied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From these roots, we propose the languaging curriculum which involves learning to strategically make use of available tools and resources to successfully do things with English for real-world purposes. Such an approach challenges many of the accepted practices in ELT. For example, there are no standard norms so teachers need to be completely non-judgmental about any language the students produce; and there is an ever-increasing number of resources that can help students to do things with English, such as Google Translate, that should be exploited, rather than banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To design a languaging curriculum, we started with several principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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