Researching teaching at university – a study on promoting autonomy in learning French as a foreign language

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-2045

Palabras clave:

university education, learning French, pedagogy for autonomy, innovation, teaching research, case study, action research, teacher-researcher

Resumen

Introduction: Linking teaching and research can improve the quality of learning and develop teachers' professional skills. Based on this assumption, a pedagogical experiment to promote student autonomy in a free French course was implemented and evaluated, guided by the following research question: To what extent does the scholarship of teaching and learning constitute a way of reconfiguring teaching practices to promote student autonomy? Methodology: The research is a qualitative case study using action research. Twenty-five students took part in two curricular units taught by the teacher-researcher. Data collection involved questionnaires and interviews, observation and field notes, and the analysis of students’ assignments and self-regulation records. Results: The approach was valued by the students and had positive effects on the development of their linguistic-communicative skills, their motivation and their autonomy in terms of decision-making and self-regulation of learning. Discussion: The study suggests that investigating pedagogy is a way of transforming teaching and learning practices, highlighting the role of the teacher-researcher in innovation and valuing teaching as a field of knowledge production.

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Bruna Isabel Joaquim Plácido, Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências

Doutorada em Ciências da Educação, especialidade em Educação em Línguas Estrangeiras pela Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Bruna Plácido tem uma longa trajetória académica e profissional. Desde 2016, é professora no ISEC e anteriormente lecionou na FLUC (2007-2023). De nacionalidade portuguesa, realizou os estudos obrigatórios em La Chaux-de-Fonds (Suíça). Ao retornar a Portugal, obteve uma Licenciatura em Língua e Literatura Modernas (Português/Francês) na FLUC, enriquecendo a sua formação com um ano Erasmus na Universidade Paul-Valéry, em Montpellier 3 (França). Após um Mestrado em Português como Língua Estrangeira e Segunda Língua pela FLUC, continuou os seus estudos no Centre de Linguistique Appliquée da Universidade de Franche Comté, em Besançon (França), onde alcançou um DU PROFORM.

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2025-04-16

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Plácido, B. I. J. (2025). Researching teaching at university – a study on promoting autonomy in learning French as a foreign language. European Public & Social Innovation Review, 10, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-2045

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Innovación

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