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Author: Viviane and Ludmila |
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Date Posted: 10:57:25 08/29/10 Sun The simulated communication proposal type selected to write this proposal is a paper and the conference to present the work is The American Association for Applied Linguistic. AAAL is a unit of academic linguistics which concentrates on spreading and discussing information about language issues. The main goal is to host meetings and conferences which gives opportunities for many people in the field, and that raises the significance of linguistic in the academic world and in the society. The section selected to submit this paper is ‘Second and foreign language pedagogy’. The article used to base this paper proposal is “A case study on foreign English teacher’s challenges in Taiwanese elementary schools” a research made by Chen and Cheng, and published on October 2009. The research presented that with the spread of English as the global language, many people from other speaking countries move to other countries in hope of becoming English teachers there. The focus of this research was to follow three English teachers from South Africa, and to verify how they had dealt and adapted to a new country, Taiwan. The article shows that all the three teachers who were selected to participate in the program were pedagogically well prepared to fulfill the position that they were hired for. The main objective of this proposal is to help to improve the conditions of work of foreign English teachers and to demonstrate the accent issue present in those contexts. The increasing need to learn English around the world has brought also the search for native teachers, so foreign teachers are hired as native teachers of English. But while practicing in the classroom those teachers tend to suffer with the high expectations from students about his or her performance and how he or she should sound. In other words there is linguistic discrimination against their accents. Following comes the proposal’s title, abstract and summary. Title: Foreign English teachers and their challenges in different cultures, what is necessary a pedagogical intervention or a change in their accent? Abstract: Based on the research made by Chen and Cheng, “A case study on foreign English teachers’ challenges in Taiwanese elementary schools”. It is raised this contradictory issue, which was; while foreign teachers (from countries different than America and United Kingdom) are hired as native teachers they suffer discrimination for their accent. In order to exemplify and acquaint this paper, it will be quoted the research made by the article, which brings three South African teachers and what kind of experiences they had while teaching in Taiwan, and what they had suffered because of not sounding genuine as Americans. The conclusion taken by the authors was that those teachers needed better preparation before assuming that function in a new environment. By referring to that article, it is possible to see that besides suffering linguistic discrimination, something that went beyond those teachers capacity of changing, they also had a hard time in class performance and adapting to that environment. From that it is noticeable that it was necessary an action research to improve their conditions and circumstances. By that was important a pedagogical intervention in those teachers’ classroom, to be more specific, they needed better preparation before entering this new context of teaching in another country. Summary This paper intends to discuss how foreign English teachers can improve their acceptance and role in a new environment. It was based on the article of Chen and Cheng, to exemplify this situation suffered by those teachers. From that was raised the discussion of what is required for those foreign English teachers succeed, a pedagogical intervention or a change in their accent? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |