Using the Seminar Format to Explore Pre-service Teachers’ Argumentative Abilities in English as a Foreign Language

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  • Pelusa Orellana Universidad de Los Andes, Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.267

Keywords:

Argumentation, teacher education, Socratic dialogue, preservice teachers

Abstract

The current study describes the introduction of seminar discussions in a literature course to track students’ growth in argument production across the semester. Sixteen students enrolled in a required teacher education course were asked to plan and facilitate a 50-minute seminar discussion on a literary text, following the Paideia Seminar protocol. The course was taught in English, although the students’ first language was Spanish. Over the course of the semester, I monitored students’ progress in developing evidence-based coherent arguments and counterarguments. Pre-service teachers not only gained expertise as seminar facilitators, but their oral and written responses to seminar issues revealed an increase in more elaborated arguments, use of textual references, counterargument production, and overall sophisticated thinking.

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Author Biography

Pelusa Orellana, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile

Directora de Comunicaciones y Publicaciones

Published

2015-06-20

How to Cite

Orellana, P. (2015). Using the Seminar Format to Explore Pre-service Teachers’ Argumentative Abilities in English as a Foreign Language. GIST – Education and Learning Research Journal, (10), 51–73. https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.267

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