The Construction of Social Reality through the Use of the English Language: A Study with Argentinean Pre-Service Teachers
This case study aims at replicating a study conducted in 2007 with a group of ten trainees at the English Teacher Training Program at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. In 2007, the participants recorded a dyadic interactive task. Speech data were analyzed to see how, through the use of language...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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ASOCOPI
2010-12-01
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| Series: | HOW |
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| Online Access: | http://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/67 |
| Summary: | This case study aims at replicating a study conducted in 2007 with a group of ten trainees at the English Teacher Training Program at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. In 2007, the participants recorded a dyadic interactive task. Speech data were analyzed to see how, through the use of language, learners construed their social reality. In the present work, seventeen pre-service English language teachers enrolled in a four-year program at Instituto Superior IDRA, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, completed a task similar to the one carried out by the 2007 group. Findings from both groups were cross-checked. Results revealed that most learners in both groups preferred to satisfy personal needs such as traveling, buying a house and a car to getting involved in doing academic research. |
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| ISSN: | 0120-5927 0120-5927 |