Resumen en inglés

Teachers’ talks impact students from various dimensions, content, interaction, motivation, and empathy. For this reason, they have in their words the power to set up or mitigate solidarity construction and peace building. A few studies have delved into the critical analysis of teachers’ interactions with students and how discourse served to improve inclusive educational policies. However, little is known about the analysis of classroom interactions to explore power relations, and teachers’ agency when promoting inclusion in EFL contexts with diverse learners. This qualitative study involves a hybrid approach including both critical discourse analysis and multimodal discourse (MCDA). It aims to critically explore how the interaction derived from an EFL teacher’s discourse promotes or hinders inclusive solidarity relationships in mainstream classrooms and informs inclusive education efforts in educational sectors, particularly mainstream classrooms on the potential effects of discourse analysis and multimodality to intervene in social injustice and learning of EFL for all. This study addressed the following questions: How does teachers’ discourse promote or fail to promote inclusive solidarity relationships while interacting with diverse students in a mainstream EFL classroom? In what ways does a teacher's reflection of her discourse generate opportunities for Inclusive solidarity relationships between the teacher and the students? To this end, it employed observations, semi-structured interviews, and stimulated recall to critically unveil teachers’ discourse when interacting with diverse students in the mainstream classroom. The outcomes of this research include: (1) Teachers’ demonstration of solidarity and (2) demonstration of lack of solidarity (3) teachers’ reflection on her discourse. Implications of this research may encourage teachers’ self-reflection on their discourse in order to reshape it into a more inclusive practice.