Paradigm Shift in Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education

Authors

  • Elaine Ferreira do Vale Borges Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Paraná

Keywords:

Paradigm shift, Language teaching, Teacher education, Complexity.

Abstract

In this article, I intend to conduct a short literature review and discussion about paradigm shift in language teaching and language teacher education from Cartesian to the complexity paradigm. For that, I use the Kuhnian notion of scientific revolution to present a short compilation of works related to paradigm shift in different sciences, including psychology, linguistics and, more emphatically, applied linguistics. The main proposal is to show the evolutions of paradigm shift in language and social sciences and its impact on the emergence of the complexity paradigm in language teaching and language teacher education fields.

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Author Biography

Elaine Ferreira do Vale Borges, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Paraná

Elaine Borges is an Adjunct Professor in the Teaching Methods and Techniques Department and in the Graduate Program in Education at UEPG - Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. She is BSc in Languages/UNESP, MSc in Applied Linguistics/UNICAMP, and PhD in Education/USP. She did her doctoral internship at University of Murcia (Spain) and post-doctoral research at UFMG.

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Published

2014-11-24

How to Cite

Borges, E. F. do V. (2014). Paradigm Shift in Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education. The ESPecialist, 35(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/21308

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Vol. 35 No. 1 (2014)

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Papers

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