What images do adult PLE learners associate with the language and its speakers?

Keywords:

Sociolinguistic; foreign language teaching; portuguese; social representation; multilingualism

Abstract

Adopting a sociolinguistic perspective, this article is the result of doctoral research, which formed a study on the evolution of representations associated with the Portuguese language by multilingual adult learners in the city of Barcelona, Spain. The study proposal was divided into three phases: in the first, the representations produced by the learners in the different stages of the learning process between 2016 and 2019 were identified, using different methodological tools; the second consisted of analyzing the samples identified in the previous phase, showing the indicators that determine the evolution or not of the observed representations; and the third and last one consisted in comparing the impact or not of these representations in the different stages of language learning. The proposal sought not only to identify what the learners thought but mainly to understand how these representations could interfere in the learning process, and to, from there, reflect on a methodological adaptation in teaching practice. The results indicated that the representations were the motivating mechanism of language learning.

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Published

2022-05-09

How to Cite

Santos, D. N. M. (2022). What images do adult PLE learners associate with the language and its speakers?. Praxis Educativa, 26(2), 1–25. Retrieved from https://ojs.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/6738

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2022): mayo-agosto

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