Students are idealized as subjects of their practices, historical agents of social transformation aiming at justice and equality.

Language should be seen as an unequal and contradictory composite of linguistic variation, that are valued not for their intrinsic features, but for their speakers social, economical, political and cultural position.

The text does not enclose a unique meaning waiting for a reader to discover it. The text should, otherwise, be analyzed as a network of discourses.

It is important to form a reader who is conscious, critical, emancipated, capable of articulating a counter-discourse in relation to dominant hegemonic meanings in a text.

The culture of the target language is, first and foremost, an object to be looked at, understood and introduced to students, for anthropology shows that cultures are diverse and not unequal.