THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL BLOGS AS REFLEXIVE TOOLS IN PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION

In this paper, we aim to analyze the production of professional blogs by pre-service English teachers and the roles that such digital language practices may perform in the education of reflexive and critical language teachers. Specifically, we analyzed the blog posts that two pre-service teachers produced and the professional identities that are forged in such a digital language practice. The reported case study is of qualitative and interpretative nature. The data, composed by the pre-service English teachers' blog posts and their experiential narratives regarding the pedagogical practice they experienced, were generated in 2010 in an elective unit in a state university of the north of Paraná. The results demonstrate the emergence of identity conflicts due to the engagement of the pre-service English teachers in the production of digital language practices. These conflicts have generated an impulse towards the reconstruction of the identities of these future English language professionals.