Open AccessINTERVIEW WITH DEVON WOODS / Entrevista com Devon Woods
Author(s) -
Devon Woods,
Gysele da Silva Colombo Gomes,
Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pensares em revista
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2317-2215
DOI - 10.12957/pr.2021.63635
Subject(s) - conversation , interpretation (philosophy) , relevance (law) , cognition , psychology , identity (music) , product (mathematics) , linguistics , sociology , focus (optics) , pedagogy , aesthetics , art , communication , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , political science , law , physics , optics
On May 27th, 2021, we met virtually with Devon Woods. We asked him about his studies on beliefs and the relationship between beliefs and emotions and identity. We approached the decision-making process and its relationship to BAK (Beliefs, Assumptions and Knowledge). We also, discussed its relevance to English teaching communities, particularly here in Brazil. Devon Woods has always demonstrated to be amazed by the unseen and often unnoticed processes of interpretation that are involved in both personal and pedagogical types of communication. In the 1970s, he engaged in studies of learners’ and teachers’ cognition – their beliefs, interpretations and actions – and the interactions between them in language classrooms. As a product of his 1992 doctoral dissertation, we find his remarkable book “Teacher Cognition in Language Teaching” (1996), several articles, and the focus of the work of a number of graduate students published in the Carleton Papers in Applied Language Studies. The results of this conversation are what we present here in the form of an interview.