The English language learning experiences and career positioning of teacher Luz Marina.
This narrative research study presents an exploration of the experiences of Luz Marina; a middle school English teacher from Cúcuta, focusing on the impact suffered during the first years of her teaching, caused by struggles with her English language acquisition. Additionally, this narrative study d...
- Autores:
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Sanchez, Yazmin
- Tipo de recurso:
- Trabajo de grado de pregrado
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad Santo Tomás
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Institucional USTA
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/32413
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/11634/32413
- Palabra clave:
- Communicative abilities
Language acquisition
Narrative research
Life experience
Habilidades comunicacionales
Narrativas
Lengua inglesa
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia
| Summary: | This narrative research study presents an exploration of the experiences of Luz Marina; a middle school English teacher from Cúcuta, focusing on the impact suffered during the first years of her teaching, caused by struggles with her English language acquisition. Additionally, this narrative study discloses the emotional and ethical motivations this teacher had, in order to go in the to look out for extracurricular English proficiency instruction, which provided her with the needed language training to overcome her limited communicational abilities as well as nourished her with knowledge about international cultures, considering the importance of the sociolinguistic aspect in the English as a foreign language teaching practice. This investigation aims at describing how the participant’s limited confidence in her English language proficiency made her feel anxious and insecure about her professional performance during the inceptive years of her teaching practice. This qualitative study was based on the discourse analysis of the narrated experiences, organized in a chronological set of events, and on the interpretation and description of the subsequent steps taken to overcome the language difficulties exposed by the participant. The implemented instruments of investigation were developed over class observations, pictures, field notes, and semi-structured one on one interviews between the investigator and the participant. This narrative inquiry has been carried out in conformance with the Research Field: The study of the English Language and its Contexts providing foundation for the Research Subproject: The Voices of the LLEI Realities: Life Stories and Experiences at Universidad Santo Tomas, Distant Education Program. Key words: Communicative abilities, Language acquisition, Narrative research, Life experience. |
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