ERIC Number: EJ1127931
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Dec
Pages: 17
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The Construction of Social Reality through the Use of the English Language: A Study with Argentinean Pre-Service Teachers
Luchini, Pedro Luis
HOW, v17 n1 p91-107 Dec 2010
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.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Research, Student Attitudes, Phonology, Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Travel, Motor Vehicles, Housing, Preferences, Statistical Analysis
ASOCOPI, the Colombian Association of Teachers of English. Cra 27 A #53-06, oficina 405, Bogota, Colombia. +57-2115018; Fax: +57-2115018. e-mail: asocopicolombia@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina
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