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This study investigates how the relationship between nationalism and language learning is manifested in discourse at an English language classroom facilitated in Nogales Sonora along the Mexico/US border. Employing ethnographically-sensitive critical discourse analysis, this study contributes to the fields of English Language Teaching (ELT), Border Studies, and Nationalism Studies by introducing three analytical terms that provide a means to document the social construction of nation-states (termed herein as imagined national communities of practice). The three terms are (1) nationalist practices, which refers to social practice that presupposes nationalist principles, (2) nationalist border practices, which refers to discerning self/other along nationalist lines, and (3) nationalist standard practices, which refers to the articulation of nationalist standards of language and subjectivity. The students attending the class under analysis comprise a unique population in that they are adults who occupy positions of economic and social privilege in the Nogales Sonora community because of their management-level employment at maquila factories. Reflecting their status, the students are invested in nationalist practices of border and standard in order to align themselves with nation-state institutions and to distance themselves from cultural and linguistic liminality (e.g., Mexican-American, paisano, code-switching, and Spanglish) characteristic of border regions. The classroom under observation upheld nationalist borders and standards, with important consequences. First, nationalist notions of border led classroom participants to disavow the bilingual language use that was clearly necessary for successful classroom operations, despite an English immersion classroom policy. Second, nationalist practices established the local classroom space as indexically linked to an imagined American community of practice, understood by students to be authentically monolingual, monocultural, and distinct from Mexico. Association with--but not full incorporation into--this particular understanding of the American nation-state is advantageous to students for maintaining their elevated social and economic positioning in the local Nogales Sonora community. Thus, this classroom serves as a site of nationalist border reproduction and the reinforcement of hierarchies of privilege. The study encourages teacher reflection on what nationalism can mean to formal language learning contexts and suggests directions for re-aligning classroom practice to approaches that embrace multilingual realities of language learning contexts.

This thesis is a complexity-informed case study of a language school in Greece, which provides a rich description of how language pedagogy develops in the periphery of the English-using world. In addition, this study demonstrates the feasibility and potential of using Complex Systems Theory (CST) in the study of educational settings. The thesis begins by describing English Language Teaching (ELT) in Greece, thus setting the scene for the empirical investigation. This is followed by a review of ELT literature, with particular reference to theories of language, pedagogy and society, and by an overview of CST, which pragmatically synthesises complex realism and post-modern ways of knowing, and defines a set of principles to guide complexity-informed empirical inquiry. Having conceptualised the language school as a complex system, it is suggested that activity in the school was sustained by multiple intentionalities, i.e., collective, emergent, nested and generative drivers of activity. These included: (a) an imperative to provide certification to learners, (b) some learners’ desire to integrate in transnational discourse communities, (c) the expectation that language learning should lead to increased awareness of ‘English’ culture, (d) competition against the state school system, and (e) the unstated aim of protecting the professional interests of the school’s staff and stakeholders. Intentionalities were associated with specific pedagogical outcomes and cultural outlooks, and their synthesis is defined as a dynamic of intentions. Next, the thesis looks into the learning materials used at the language school, and it is suggested that these generate affordances which impacted pedagogy. The distribution of learning activities in the books was associated with synchronic and diachronic changes in the dynamics of intentions underpinning activity in the school. Complexity-inspired conceptual instruments, such as an ‘affordance landscape’ and ‘attractors’, are developed to describe the influence of the learning materials, and it is suggested that the learning resources used at the language school made transmissive and communicative pedagogy more likely. The empirical component of the study concludes by describing prototypical instruction sequences that typified ELT in the language school, which evidenced traces of transmissive and communicative pedagogy. Some sequences (e.g., Reading and Vocabulary, and Transmissive Grammar) evidenced transmissive influences, which were associated with local pedagogical traditions, whereas others, such as Process-Based Writing, were more closely aligned with the communicative ideology that is mainstream in ELT. The thesis concludes by synthesising the findings with insights from the CST literature. In doing so, it demonstrates the theoretically generative potential of a complexity-informed inquiry, which can help to formulate understandings of ELT that are sensitive to the interface between systems and their environments, while providing ontologically coherent accounts of structure and agency, and of behaviours that are neither completely random nor entirely predictable.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第23985号 / 人博第1037号 / 新制||人||244(附属図書館) / 2022||人博||1037(吉田南総合図書館) / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)准教授 金丸 敏幸, 教授 柳瀬 陽介, 教授 STEWART Timothy William, 教授 田地野 彰 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

Studien utforskade användningen av den Artificiell Intelligens chatbot, ChatGPT, i undervisningen av engelska (ELT) och hur elever och lärare på svenska gymnasieskolor uppfattade användningen av ChatGPT i engelskundervisningen. Studien har samlat båda kvantitativa data från 63 gymnasieelever genom en online-enkät och kvalitativa data från intervjuer med två engelsklärare på gymnasienivå. Forskningen undersökte i vilken utsträckning och för vilka syften elever använde ChatGPT, förändringarna i undervisningsmetoder inom ELT, samt fördelar och utmaningar med ChatGPT ur lärarnas perspektiv. Studien använde teoretiska ramverk som The Unified Technology Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), Language teacher cognition och Learner Autonomy. Resultaten indikerar att elever huvudsakligen använder ChatGPT för idegenerering och inspiration. Dock har anvädningen av ChatGPT för engelskinlärning inte blivit populär bland eleverna. Förändringar i undervisningsmetoder märks främst i klassrum bedömningar, aktiviteter, och hjälp med lektionsplanering och materialförberedelse. Fördelar med ChatGPT inkluderar idegenerering, främjande av Learner Autonomy, medan utmaningar inkluderar oro för tillförlitlighet, begränsad inlärning, och frågor om akademisk ohederlighet. Detta understryker behovet av noggrant övervägande vid inkluderingen av ChatGPT i pedagogiska sammanhang. / The study explored the application of artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, in English language teaching (ELT) and learning, exploring how Swedish upper secondary school students’ and teachers’ perceived ChatGPT in English class. The study collected quantitative data consisting of 63 upper secondary school students’ through an online questionnaire, and qualitative data from interviews with two upper-secondary ELT Teachers. The research explores the extent and purposes of students’ use of ChatGPT, the changes in ELT instructional practices, and the affordances and challenges of ChatGPT from teacher’s perspectives. This study adopts the unified technology acceptance and use of technology theory (UTAUT), Language teacher cognition and Learning autonomy as theoretical frameworks. The results indicate that students primarily use ChatGPT for brainstorming and inspiration, however, using ChatGPT for English learning has not become popular among students. Changes in instructional practices are noticeable in in-class assessments, activities, and assistance with lesson planning and material preparation. The affordances of ChatGPT are brainstorming, promoting learner autonomy, and the challenges include reliability concerns, limited learning, and issues of academic dishonesty. This emphasises the need for careful consideration when including ChatGPT in pedagogical implications.

As a result of various historical, political, economic and sociocultural factors, English today witnesses a unique situation as its non-native speakers represent a clear majority in the world. This has implications for the ownership of the English language as such, the linguistic rights of its speakers and the points of departure for English Language Teaching (ELT) worldwide. The study of the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) challenges nativespeakerist norms through research in a wide range of linguistic fields such as lexicogrammar, phonology and pragmatics, suggesting various pedagogical alterations. Although ELF is now a prolific area of research, studies in Swedish upper secondary language education from an ELF perspective, remain a scarcity in the literature. The present paper engages in surveying teaching attitudes toward ELF in Swedish upper secondary education among Swedish and Anglophone International Baccalaureate (IB) teachers and in two contemporary syllabi, namely Swedish (ELT) and IB syllabi. The questionnaire given to the two aforementioned groups of teachers suggest that ELF-friendly teaching descriptions best suit their students even though both groups believe that teaching descriptions based on native speaker norms and varieties represent the most appropriate approach. The critical discourse analysis of the two syllabi suggests that ELF is approached in different ways in the two systems: the Swedish ELT curricula may be perceived as rather ELF-friendly because native speaker norms, deviations and errors, grammaticality and idiomaticity are almost non-existent, whereas the IB revolves around linguistic prescriptivism and native speaker norms to a larger extent. The present study argues that English language curricula in Sweden should be informed by research on ELF.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the in-service teacher training program, The Certificate for Teachers of English (CTE), run jointly by two departments: The Department of Basic English (DBE) and the Department of Modern Languages (DML) of the School of Foreign Languages (SFL) at Middle East Technical University (METU) in terms of whether it achieved its objectives and to provide suggestions regarding the redesigning of the program for the following years. The model used for evaluating the program was one proposed by Kirkpatrick (1998 / first devised in 1959). This model entails 4 levels of evaluation to carry out while evaluating training programs. Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results. The research questions focused in this study are all in line with these four levels. The participants of the study were four folded. The main participants were the trainees attending the program. (N=6, 2 from DML / 4 from DBE). Another group of participants were the trainers of the program. (N=2). The third group of participants was the chairpersons at the two departments. Finally, data were collected from the students of the trainees and non trainees. Data was collected via questionnaires from the trainees and their students, interviews with trainees, trainers and chairpersons, observations of sessions of the program and trainees&rsquo / lessons, and related documents of the program. The data collected was analyzed qualitatively using the Miles and Huberman (1994) procedure for analyzing qualitative data: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification. Results revealed that the CTE program was effective in terms of achieving its objectives. However, there could be improvements in certain components of the program. Another result of the study was that the application of Kirkpatrick&rsquo / s training program evaluation model was not very effective in the evaluation of the CTE program. The main drawback was that the model is a nonlinear one which made it difficult to concentrate on a particular level of evaluation at a particular time. Therefore the suggestion for a more linear and definite model for the evaluation of the CTE program was proposed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana Godinho Ragusa Marcicano.pdf: 1199278 bytes, checksum: 937dcab140f2c5f63a232659f098a84b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This dissertation lies within the area of the English teacher s reflective development and aims at describing and interpreting the phenomenon English teachers reflection in interactions through e-mail, through the identification of the questions that intrigue these participating teachers. To reach this goal, this investigation describes and interprets the phenomenon above from the point of view of the experience lived by myself, the researcher, as well as by seven participating teachers. The theoretical underpinning for this study is the concept of reflective development, based on the contributions of Dewey (1916, 1910/1933, 1938/1997, 1986/2008) Schön (1983, 1987, 1992a, 1992b), Freire (1970/1983, 1992, 2002, 2004), Vygotsky (1984/1998, 1989/2008), Kemmis (1987), Zeichner (1993, 2003) among others. From a qualitative standpoint, the methodological approach is the hermeneutic-phenomenological one, which aims at associations of retrospective descriptions and (re-)interpretations of lived experience (Ricoeur, 1986, 2002; van Manen, 1990; Freire, 1998, 2006, 2007a, 2007b). The texts which provided the interpretation basis were collected along two different semesters, when through 76 e-mail messages and 5 presential meetings it was possible to: (1) draw the profile of the English teachers who work for public schools and participate in this research, (2) identify the subjects which lead them to reflections upon their practices, and (3) document the reflective process unleashed. The interpretation of the collected texts was made according to the textualization and thematization processes proposed by van Manen (1990), and systematized by the refining and ressignification procedures suggested by Freire (2006, 2007a, 2007b) which show the themes that structure the investigated phenomenon. The interpretation of the texts reveal that English teachers reflection in interactions through e-mail is lived differently by the two groups formed by the participating teachers: in the first one, Caderno, difficulty, time, and identification are the emerging themes; in the second one, identification, practice and lack of time are the themes that display the nature of the experience lived by part of the participants in this research / objetivo descrever e interpretar o fenômeno reflexão de professores de Inglês em interações via e-mail, a partir da identificação de questões que inquietam esses professores. Para atingir esse objetivo, a presente investigação descreve e interpreta o fenômeno citado tendo como referência a experiência vivida por mim, pesquisadora, e pelos sete professores convidados a participar de minha pesquisa, originando os dois grupos focalizados. Fundamenta teoricamente esta pesquisa o conceito geral de formação de professores, tomando-se como base as contribuições de Dewey (1916, 1910/1933, 1938/1997, 1986/2008) Schön (1983, 1987, 1992a, 1992b), Freire (1970/1983, 1992, 2002, 2004), Vygotsky (1984/1998, 1989/2008), Kemmis (1987), Zeichner (1993, 2003), entre outros. De cunho qualitativo, a orientação metodológica é a hermenêutico-fenomenológica, que procura fazer uma associação de descrições retrospectivas e (re-)interpretação de experiências vividas (Ricoeur, 1986, 2002; van Manen, 1990; Freire, 1998, 2006, 2007a, 2007b), visando, assim, a descrever e interpretar um fenômeno da experiência humana. Os textos que serviram de base para a interpretação foram coletados ao longo de dois semestres diferentes, quando, por meio de 76 mensagens eletrônicas e 5 encontros presenciais, foi possível (1) traçar o perfil dos professores de inglês atuantes em escolas públicas e participantes desta pesquisa, (2) identificar os assuntos que os motivam a refletir sobre suas práticas e (3) documentar o processo reflexivo desencadeado. A interpretação dos registros textuais obtidos foi realizada com base nos processos de textualização e tematização, propostos por van Manen (1990) e operacionalizados pelos procedimentos de refinamento e ressignificação, sugeridos por Freire (2006, 2007a, 2007b), os quais evidenciam os temas que estruturam o fenômeno em foco. A interpretação dos textos revela que a natureza da reflexão de professores de Inglês em interações via e-mail se constituiu, distintamente, nos dois grupos investigados: no primeiro, Caderno, dificuldade, tempo e identificação são os temas que emergem dos registros interpretados; no segundo, os temas identificados são identificação, prática e falta de tempo

This is a study that employs error analysis to investigate written production in English, by Swedish upper secondary learners of English, in order to determine which linguistic errors most commonly occur amongst this group, and to compare the results between first-year students and third-year students for a possible indication of which error types continue to occur throughout upper secondary school. The error categories included in this study are grammatical errors and errors as a result of transfer. The variable of gender will also be taken into account, due to the statistics and previous research that show female students tend to achieve higher results in academics. The purpose of the study is to gain a better understanding of how Swedish upper secondary learners acquire English, and to uncover which areas are most challenging for them, in the hopes of highlighting areas within ELT that may need revision. The participants of the study are students attending Swedish upper secondary schools, year 1 and 3. The analyzed data was collected from the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC), which consists of texts produced by Swedish learners of English attending middle school and upper secondary school.     The results show that certain error categories and types are consistently challenging for both first-year students and third-year students, which provides an indication of which areas in ELT might be lacking. Within the grammatical error category, all groups demonstrated a significant lack of knowledge pertaining to subject-verb agreement, as well as prepositions, which are both to a certain degree attributed to the first language; meaning, they may be the result of transfer. The male students were shown to outperform the female students; however, the female third-year students produced fewer errors than their male counterparts, which suggests a faster progression. The male third-year students were shown to have the same error rate as the male first-year students, which suggests a slower progression. While the third-year students produced fewer errors overall, the error types they struggled the most with are the same error types most commonly occurring in the first-year group, suggesting pedagogical remediation is needed.