Forums and The Reflection On Teaching/Learning The Mother Tongue: Conceptions Of Students

Students' conceptions on the teaching/learning process influence the way they learn. In a course we teach in a second cycle of studies of Bologna, they must engage in two on line discussion forums to co-construct knowledge on essential topics concerning the teaching of the mother tongue and deliver an individual essay, one of the topics being the expression of their views on their contribution to their training. To determine how these students conceive the teaching/learning process and the role ICT play in it and to discuss their probable consequences, we selected relevant phrases/sentences in the essays and submitted them to content analysis, concluding that they have a very traditional conception of the teaching/leaming process, which prevents than from taking profit of an organization that places them at the center of it and affects negatively their ability to propose this kind of interaction to their future pupils.