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Student Microtransformations in English Classrooms
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Wolfe, Paula – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
The objective of this paper is to use psychoanalytic theory to examine how attempts at critical teaching in two English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms related to changes in student subjectivity. The research critiques critical pedagogical assumptions regarding transformation and empowerment through a Lacanian perspective. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Psychiatry, Theories