Argumentation in teacher education

Abstract

This article is the follow-up of another in which it was stated the importance of discourse analysis, argumentative plan, coherence, cohesion and use of elaborated codes in the development of the communicative and argumentative competence. This time, the focus is on the discussion of the competences needed by in- service and pre-service teachers when they have to make responsible and documented decisions about the topics and approaches selected in their classes. It is suggested that undergraduate language programs have to strengthen the critical and argumentative component by means of the use or argumentative techniques that foster conviction and mainly persuasion skills in the involved population.