Abstract:Today's society is influenced by new information technologies, which cause important sociological changes that impact education. As such, the field of EFL today demands different abilities and attitudes from teachers. This paper has two objectives: first, to initiate a reflection on the EFL teachers' role, taking as an assumption that teachers have been influenced by cultural background experiences in their professional development and that this has caused them to develop a narrow view of ideal methods which may not be appealing for situations, and second, to propose three principles in foreign language teaching that will allow seeing EFL tasks from a wider view: 1) evaluating what comes from one's cultural background that conforms to a general understanding of what teaching is, 2) re-shaping the teachers' role in order to align with society's demands and 3) assuming a dialogic process to building classroom strategies for language teaching and learning.Keywords: teaching a foreign language, cultural background, teachers' role, dialogic process ResumenLa enseñanza del la lengua extranjera está exigiendo diferentes habilidades y actitudes de los profesores debido a nuevas dinámicas de la sociedad. Hay dos objetivos en este artículo: primero, motivar una reflexión sobre el rol de los profesores de inglés cuya influencia por antecedentes culturales en su desarrollo profesional ha sido percibido de forma limitada a los ideales de un método. Segundo, proponer tres principios para la enseñanza de la lengua extranjera que sirvan para darle una visión mas amplia que permita acomodarse mejor a los requerimientos de la actualidad: 1. Evaluar lo que viene de nuestros antecedentes culturales y que conforman nuestro entendimiento general de cómo se debe enseñar, 2. Reformar el rol del maestro para mediar con las exigencias de la sociedad actual y 3. Asumir un proceso dialógico para construir estrategias en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la lengua.Palabras clave: enseñanza de la lengua extranjera, antecedentes culturales, el rol del maestro, un proceso dialógico. RésuméL'enseignement de la langue étrangère demande des compétences et des attitudes différentes chez les enseignants du fait des dynamiques nouvelles de la société. Cet article a deux objectifs : le premier, de promouvoir une réflexion sur le rôle des enseignants d'anglais, dont l'influence, à cause des antécédents culturels dans son développement professionnel, a été perçue d'une manière limitée aux idéaux d'une méthode. Le deuxième, de proposer trois principes pour l'enseignement de la langue étrangère qui permettront de lui donner une vision plus élargie afin de mieux s'adapter aux besoins d'aujourd'hui : 1. Évaluer ce qui relève de nos antécédents culturels et qui fait partie de notre compréhension générale de la façon dans laquelle il faut enseigner ; 2. Modifier le rôle de l'enseignant afin de l'adapter aux demandes de la société actuelle ; 3. Entamer un démarche de dialogue pour construire des stratégies dans l'enseignement et l'apprentissage de la lan...
Educational settings are now characterised by ethnic, cultural, linguistic, sociocultural and epistemological diversity. This article analyses epistemological diversity as an important factor in shaping teacher education programmes. This involved exploring how teacher-educators and student-teachers align themselves or negotiate modern and postmodern views of education. The research employed a narrative analysis-based on a qualitative methodology to discuss the effects of modern and postmodern views of knowledge construction and pedagogical action during the English Teaching practicum at a state university in Bogota. The findings suggest that, even though teacher-educators and student-teachers position themselves with discourses of generational change regarding conceptions of knowledge construction, there is a tendency to shape practices based on the ideals of fixed-defined generations (e.g. old, young) who have fixed views of education (old/traditional, young/contemporary) which consequently give particular shapes to pedagogical actions.
Critical race theory (CRT) questions social practices that have perpetuated discrimination and social inequality. Decolonial studies coincide with these efforts to deracialise elt practices, explaining racialisation as dominant structures constituted in whiteness-centred practices that situate some in disadvantage (usually non-white) while privileging others (usually white). In the context of English language teaching (ELT), that colonisation/racialisation can take the form of some hierarchisation of English native speakers from the Global North while otherising non-native speakers of English and native speakers of English from the Global South. Therefore, coloniality/racialisation are useful terms to explain practices that value foreign over local identities alienating regional/local views and languages. In this article, the links between CRT and decolonial theories are explored and colonisation/racialisation of ELT are approached through the analysis of macro and micro practices developed in two public universities, one in Colombia and one in Brazil. The aim is to disrupt those practices by making evident decolonisation/deracialisation efforts in undergraduate and graduate students’ proposals.
Este artículo de investigación presenta los hallazgos de un estudio orientado a explorar el tipo de conexiones que pueden existir entre el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas y la configuración de identidades raciales de aprendientes de español y de inglés. Aunque este tipo de conexiones tiene grandes implicaciones para las prácticas de enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas en nuestro país, se ha dado por sentado y ha permanecido inexplorado. Apoyados en la teoría critica de la raza –en particular, en el concepto de blancura–, además de postulados poscoloniales, la investigación buscó problematizar la noción de identidad racial al analizarla como un factor relevante en procesos de aprendizaje de lenguas. Mediante una metodología cualitativa, el análisis de la construcción de identidades raciales se hizo por medio de narrativas escritas y orales. Entre loshallazgos principales se destaca la idea de que el aprendizaje de lenguas está directamente relacionado con formas de desafío de estructuras raciales en algunas ocasiones y de acomodación a estas, en otras. Dichos desafíos y acomodaciones se ven reflejados en diferentes tipos de posicionamientos ante diversos grupos sociales por parte de los aprendientes.
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