Discursive Representations of Digital Artifacts in an EFL Classroom: Analysing Discursive Voices of Pre-Service Teachers of English

Oleksandr Kapranov

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e78833

Authors

Oleksandr Kapranov Western Norway University of Applied Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9056-3311

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e78833

Abstract

The present article presents and discusses a study that seeks to analyse discursive representations of digital artifacts in the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) by pre-service EFL teachers (henceforth – participants). The study involves a corpus of argumentative essays on a range of topics in EFL didactics written by the participants and their respective control group which is comprised of non-teacher EFL students. The analysis of the corpus of essays reveals that whilst there are discursive representations of digital artifacts that are shared between the groups of participants and controls, there appear to be discursive representations of digital artifacts that are group-specific. These findings and their linguo-didactic implications are further described in the article.

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