Communication or Business Languages. Today's Contribution of Critical Bilingualism to Language Teaching

Foreign language learning is considered by the members of the public as an indisputable imperative, not only legally, but also socially. As a consequence, languages are regarded as assets with a high symbolic value to be obtained in order to socially prosper and not as a part of the process of becoming a person. In this paper I question the way in which the members of the public accept foreign languages' hegemony and its value as linguistic capital. The critical theory applied to bilingualism will provide it with its personal and social approach. Language teaching is part of a dialogical didactics approach that follows personalization principles whose aims are equivalent to those of a second literacy period.