Controversial Issues and their Impact on the Construction and Reshaping of EFL Learners' Habitus

The following study aims to explore Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and its shaping re-shaping through exposure authentic oral input. used podcasts as an EFL teaching strategy where learners were expected confront their dispositions. For the purpose this study, mental illness issue was employed a controversial topic. research grounded theory approach multi-case design three unstructured interviews implemented in each case along process. Content analysis applied generated categories emerged from coding results reveal that learning process has potential become subversive form defying culturally dominant dispositions enhance learners’ probabilities well foreign language. According findings inclusion listening comprehension tasks, which challenge students’ habitus, can successful modify cultural with English