Toward a critique of the English language teaching practices and policies in Mexico and Taiwan

The paper reviews the English language teaching practices and foreign language policies in Mexico and Taiwan. This paper also explores the most recent approaches to English language teaching in both contexts. The researchers present some evidence in order to build a critique toward how languages policies influence decisions about teaching methodologies but hardly ever they change teachers’ underlying conceptualization about language teaching practices. Overall there are two factors resulted from the lack of English language competence: 1) low levels of school attainment, and 2) a high rate of foreign language unskilled workers. Consequently, to guarantee the mastery of EFL a more comprehensive pedagogical approach conducive to the development of effective pedagogies is needed in both contexts