Back on ‘BrELT on The Road 2019’ (an amazing event on English Language Teaching that took place in Casa Thomas Jefferson, in Brasília), I had the opportunity to talk to a few teachers about linguistic variation and English classes. Such a topic deals with lots of theory - it is true - and may seem distant from the reality of other issues dealing directly with applied linguistics. Linguistic variation is an important topic on mother tongue teaching and has been thoroughly portrayed by professor Marcos Bagno - among other professionals - in books and papers related to Linguistic Prejudice. However, such a subject is not widely discussed within ELT, even though several linguistic studies aim on describing language use in relation to its social context.
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