Content Representations in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

This study was an exploration of what English language content was represented in a classroom in which English was taught as a foreign language (EFL). The purpose of this study was to explore the way EFL teachers represent English language content/constructs in a classroom setting. The motivation behind this exploration is to contribute to the understandings of EFL teachers' practices in classroom settings. Doyle's task framework was employed, specifically with the intention to map what content representations emerged out of the teachers' classroom practices. All in all, the teachers' classroom content representations were found to be entrenched with the idea of high-stakes test preparation in Turkey.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/194993
Date January 2009
CreatorsTurkan, Sultan
ContributorsDoyle, Walter, Doyle, Walter, Austin, Diane, Dupuy, Beatrice
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Electronic Dissertation
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