Non-native English Speaking Teachers’ Subjectivities and Colombian Language Policies: A Narrative Study

This article reports the results of a study whose purpose was to trace the configuration of professional subjectivities by analyzing the narratives of four Colombian non-native English speaking teachers in the framework of language policies. In this qualitative-narrative study we used written narrat...

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Autores:
Gómez-Vásquez, Leidy Yisel
Guerrero Nieto, Carmen Helena
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2018
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66860
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66860
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67888/
Palabra clave:
37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Dichotomy
language policies
narratives
native English speaker teachers
non-native English speaking teachers
subjectivities
dicotomía
narrativas
profesores nativos
profesores no nativos
subjetividades
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openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:This article reports the results of a study whose purpose was to trace the configuration of professional subjectivities by analyzing the narratives of four Colombian non-native English speaking teachers in the framework of language policies. In this qualitative-narrative study we used written narratives and narrative interviews as instruments to collect data from the participants who work in different universities and schools in Colombia. Their stories were analyzed using short story analysis, and the results allowed us to identify a core category: Re-creating the self: An entangled, changeable and endless process which shows that the subjectivities are influenced by others, teachers go through processes of acceptance or rejection when configuring them, and knowledge and reflection play an important role.