Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience
This paper reports the results of a narrative inquiry study on exchange programs, intercultural awareness, and professional development in eight former participants of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant -FLTA- program. This study used written narratives to collect data from eight part...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2023-09-01
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| author | Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos Lizeth Andrea Martínez-Burgos |
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| description | This paper reports the results of a narrative inquiry study on exchange programs, intercultural awareness, and professional development in eight former participants of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant -FLTA- program. This study used written narratives to collect data from eight participants of the FLTA scholarship program who belonged to the cohort 2017-2018. The results of this study showed that after being a FLTA, participants improved their English language skills; they became more aware of their teaching practices by implementing and adapting different teaching methodologies, they experienced cross-cultural interaction, and understood better cultural differences which really fostered their personal and professional development as English language teachers in their home countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3196bf4f6cad4c16a5012d37c5ffd16c2023-09-05T22:42:30ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272023-09-01302133110.19183/how.30.2.7371047Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional ExperienceAngela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-5769Lizeth Andrea Martínez-Burgos1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-2747Universidad Tecnológica de PereiraUniversidad Pedagógica NacionalThis paper reports the results of a narrative inquiry study on exchange programs, intercultural awareness, and professional development in eight former participants of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant -FLTA- program. This study used written narratives to collect data from eight participants of the FLTA scholarship program who belonged to the cohort 2017-2018. The results of this study showed that after being a FLTA, participants improved their English language skills; they became more aware of their teaching practices by implementing and adapting different teaching methodologies, they experienced cross-cultural interaction, and understood better cultural differences which really fostered their personal and professional development as English language teachers in their home countries.https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/737english as a foreign language teacherslanguage immersionintercultural awarenessprofessional developmentexchange programs |
| spellingShingle | Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos Lizeth Andrea Martínez-Burgos Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience HOW english as a foreign language teachers language immersion intercultural awareness professional development exchange programs |
| title | Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience |
| title_full | Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience |
| title_fullStr | Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience |
| title_short | Participants’ Narratives of the Fulbright FLTA Program on their Intercultural and Professional Experience |
| title_sort | participants narratives of the fulbright flta program on their intercultural and professional experience |
| topic | english as a foreign language teachers language immersion intercultural awareness professional development exchange programs |
| url | https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/737 |
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