A teacher uses excerpts from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1913) as a starting point to reflect on language use and its social implications. Before reading, she facilitates a group discussion where students share expressions from their heritage languages or regional dialects, drawing parallels with the Cockney dialect of the protagonist Eliza and sharing personal experiences of linguistic discrimination. Next, the students engage in guided reading of selected excerpts from the play and discuss Eliza’s transformation — a working-class woman who, after intensive phonetic training, is introduced into high society. The activity continues with the screening of scenes from the musical My Fair Lady (1964), based on the play, followed by a comparison between the two texts using film stills, focusing on syntactic and lexical differences. Finally, students are invited to research contemporary productions that relate to these works, drawing on their linguistic repertoires, such as memes, fanfics, videobooks, and video reviews.
Considering the teacher’s practice, identify the linguistic phenomena addressed as well as the pedagogical approach employed