From Awareness to Cultural Agency: EFL Colombian Student Teachers’ Travelling Abroad Experiences
Colombian English as a foreign language student teachers’ opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our participants who engaged mainly in working abroad with study being ancillary....
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-01-01
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| author | John Jairo Viafara González J. Aleida Ariza Ariza |
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| description | Colombian English as a foreign language student teachers’ opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our participants who engaged mainly in working abroad with study being ancillary. Fifty student teachers from two public universities reported how their international sojourn bolstered their intercultural learning. Three different programs, disconnected from participants’ academic institutions, became vehicles for their experiences abroad. Surveys and interviews reveal that participants’ origin, selected programs, and contextual circumstances influenced their intercultural learning. As a result, intercultural development gravitated towards awareness of intercultural patterns, critical reading of culture, and pre-service teachers’ repositioning to build cultural agency. Implications suggest the need to connect traveling abroad programs to undergraduate curricula. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23c5bc1a27024923a0f933705bbce7962023-06-02T00:10:21ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902015-01-01171123141http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v17n1.39499From Awareness to Cultural Agency: EFL Colombian Student Teachers’ Travelling Abroad ExperiencesJohn Jairo Viafara González0J. Aleida Ariza Ariza1Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, ColombiaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, ColombiaColombian English as a foreign language student teachers’ opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our participants who engaged mainly in working abroad with study being ancillary. Fifty student teachers from two public universities reported how their international sojourn bolstered their intercultural learning. Three different programs, disconnected from participants’ academic institutions, became vehicles for their experiences abroad. Surveys and interviews reveal that participants’ origin, selected programs, and contextual circumstances influenced their intercultural learning. As a result, intercultural development gravitated towards awareness of intercultural patterns, critical reading of culture, and pre-service teachers’ repositioning to build cultural agency. Implications suggest the need to connect traveling abroad programs to undergraduate curricula.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/39499/49763EFL pre-service teachersethnocentrismethno-relativismintercultural learningwork abroadstudy abroadresidence abroad |
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| title | From Awareness to Cultural Agency: EFL Colombian Student Teachers’ Travelling Abroad Experiences |
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| title_short | From Awareness to Cultural Agency: EFL Colombian Student Teachers’ Travelling Abroad Experiences |
| title_sort | from awareness to cultural agency efl colombian student teachers travelling abroad experiences |
| topic | EFL pre-service teachers ethnocentrism ethno-relativism intercultural learning work abroad study abroad residence abroad |
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