ABSTRACT
Understanding language in any given social context depends upon a student’s abilities to see the relationships between their own life, language and society. These factors can be taught and understood as discrete areas, though considering the ways they interact in the process of making meanings is far more productive and should be regarded as the ultimate aim of the course. By doing this, students are learning that language and meanings do not just ‘exist’, but that language is living and human beings create and make it.
