One of the main aims of the second or foreign language classroom is to develop communicative competence in the target language. Students are expected to learn to use language to achieve social purposes such as understanding and producing messages as well as interacting with others. However, language education cannot be limited to training in language skills. It must be concerned with the role language plays in enacting social relations and promoting certain practices and discourses; language use shapes and is shaped by society, and constitutes knowledge, social relations and social identity; it is shaped by power relations and is ideologically loaded.