Research on English language teaching and learning in Argentina (2007-2013)

PORTO, MELINA; MONTEMAYOR-BORSINGER, ANN; LÓPEZ-BARRIOS, MARIO

Language Teaching

Cambridge University Press

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2016 vol. 49 p. 356 - 356

0261-4448

n this article we review research on English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching and learning published in Argentina between 2007 and 2013. This is the first review of a Latin American country in this series. Argentina has a century-long tradition of training EFL teachers but a comparatively shorter though fruitful history of foreign language (FL) research. The article examines 88 articles that appeared in locally published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, academic journals and one edited collection. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of topics that illustrates prominent research interests in the country, such as the role of imagination, emotion and affect in language comprehension and production, intercultural dimensions, FL teacher education and development, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), computer-Assisted language learning (CALL), the teaching of English for academic or specific purposes, testing, assessment and evaluation, and materials design and cour