Debates about Educational Issues: A Pedagogical Strategy to Explore Argumentative Skills in the EFL Classroom
This article describes a pedagogical proposal, based on debates, to determine the type of arguments that pre-service English language teachers constructed at a public university in Tunja, Colombia. We implemented a series of debate workshops about educational issues. Thirteen modern languages pre-s...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2020-01-01
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| author | Ángela Vanesa Duarte Infante Sandra Milena Fonseca Velandia Bertha Ramos Holguín |
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This article describes a pedagogical proposal, based on debates, to determine the type of arguments that pre-service English language teachers constructed at a public university in Tunja, Colombia. We implemented a series of debate workshops about educational issues. Thirteen modern languages pre-service teachers in their sixth semester participated in the debates. In each debate, we collected data through recordings, focus groups, and field notes to understand the impact of the pedagogical intervention. Findings suggest that the arguments pre-service teachers built were based on examples. In this sense, the arguments built were based on their personal experiences and their partners’ opinions. We argue for the need to implement more research proposals that will contribute to the understanding and awareness of what argumentation implies.
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| spelling | doaj-art-f22622328ddd4129a8bedb128a86ed3e2025-02-11T06:33:15ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272020-01-01271Debates about Educational Issues: A Pedagogical Strategy to Explore Argumentative Skills in the EFL ClassroomÁngela Vanesa Duarte Infante0Sandra Milena Fonseca Velandia1Bertha Ramos Holguín2Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de ColombiaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de ColombiaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia This article describes a pedagogical proposal, based on debates, to determine the type of arguments that pre-service English language teachers constructed at a public university in Tunja, Colombia. We implemented a series of debate workshops about educational issues. Thirteen modern languages pre-service teachers in their sixth semester participated in the debates. In each debate, we collected data through recordings, focus groups, and field notes to understand the impact of the pedagogical intervention. Findings suggest that the arguments pre-service teachers built were based on examples. In this sense, the arguments built were based on their personal experiences and their partners’ opinions. We argue for the need to implement more research proposals that will contribute to the understanding and awareness of what argumentation implies. https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/516argumentationdebateseducational issuesstudent-teacherspre-service teachers |
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| title | Debates about Educational Issues: A Pedagogical Strategy to Explore Argumentative Skills in the EFL Classroom |
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| title_short | Debates about Educational Issues: A Pedagogical Strategy to Explore Argumentative Skills in the EFL Classroom |
| title_sort | debates about educational issues a pedagogical strategy to explore argumentative skills in the efl classroom |
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