The Social Action-Oriented Approach in Language Teaching

Ahmet Acar is an associate professor at the department of English language teaching, Buca faculty of education at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. Acar served as a reviewer of Foreign Language Annals, senior associate editor of the Journal of English as an International Language, associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal, regional journal senior advisor of the Asian Education Index, and senior advisor of the Chinese EFL Journal.Christian Puren is a French specialist in the teaching of French and Spanish as foreign languages. He has served as a director, editor, or advisor for the publication of several textbooks and pedagogical guides in these two languages. He is a member of various scientific committees of French and international journals, having published over two hundred articles on language and culture didactics. For the past twenty years, he has placed particular emphasis on the implementation of the Social Action-Oriented Approach (SAOA) and the relationship between didactic innovation and technological innovation.