A Language-in-Use Study of EFL Students’ Social Discourses in Project-Based Learning

dc.contributor.authorBello Vargas, Ingridspa
dc.date2012-06-14
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dc.date.available2019-09-19T21:23:32Z
dc.descriptionThis article is based on a qualitative research study that was conducted to explore students’ discourses as citizens in an English as aForeign Language (EFL) course. A pedagogical intervention was proposed in order to bridge the existing gap. The instructional design consistedof PBL sessions with a coeducational group of eighteen undergraduate students, who worked collaboratively to discuss social issues whilestudying the target language (TL). Student artifacts, transcriptions of project oral reports, and a conference with the participants were used togather the data. Following a discourse analysis approach, three main discourses were identified to show the learners’ social representations,their critical stand on topical issues, and their interest in social transformations. Overall, the findings suggest that the students’ views of socialreality are diverse, contradictory, and changing, and that the EFL class can become a site for citizenship education when the TL is presentedas a tool to facilitate self-expression and critical reflection.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3824
dc.identifier10.14483/22487085.3824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11349/18061
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldasen-US
dc.relationhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3824/5390
dc.relationhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3824/6121
dc.sourceColombian appl. linguist. J.; Vol 14, No 1 (2012) January-June; 108 - 126es-ES
dc.sourceColombian Applied Linguistics Journal; Vol 14, No 1 (2012) January-June; 108 - 126en-US
dc.source2248-7085
dc.source0123-4641
dc.subjectEFL learning/teachingen-US
dc.subjectsituated learning practicesen-US
dc.subjectproject-based learningen-US
dc.subjectsocial discoursesen-US
dc.subjectdiscourse analysisen-US
dc.subjectcitizenship education.en-US
dc.titleA Language-in-Use Study of EFL Students’ Social Discourses in Project-Based Learningen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typeArtículo revisado por pareses-ES
dc.typePeer-reviewes Articleen-US
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