Meanings of 'error' in EFL teachers' discourse

ISBN-13: 9783639278613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 144 str.

Laura Fortes

Opis

This work aims at analyzing meanings evoked by the signifier error in EFL teachers discourse in two institutional contexts: a public school and a language institute. From a discursive perspective, which contemplates the historical-ideological-social dimension in the study of meaning production processes, it tries to outline the interdiscourse that constitutes the memory space which sustains meanings of error. For that we have conducted a literature survey on Applied Linguistics, focusing on the main theoretical models which approach the role of errors within the scope of ELT theories. The study of this memory space led into understanding the interdiscourse in the process of knowledge constitution concerning the English language and ELT. This process legitimates specific pedagogical practices to which teachers and learners are submitted, and through which they constitute their subjectivities. We have concluded that the teacher holds a position of contradictions, in which learning through errors is emphasized, whereas, at the same time, there is an attempt to minimize their occurrence and effects.

O autorze

She graduated from University of São Paulo (USP) with a BA in English and Portuguese in 2004 and earned a Master's degree in Discourse Analysis from the same university in 2008, devoting to the study of teachers' discourse on the treatment of errors in FLT contexts in Brazilian schools. She has been an English teacher since 1998.