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Study of a non-efl elementary teacher's reflections upon her roles as an english teacher

AutorYanet Stella Espitia Ojeda
CargoMaster in Language Teaching at U.P.T.C. (2009)
Páginas99-110
Revista Quaestiones Disputatae - Temas en Debate - Nº 9, 2011 99
Yanet Stella Espitia Ojeda**
Study Of a Non-Efl Elementary
Teacher’s Reflections Upon
Her Roles as an English
Teacher*
Abstract: This Case Study was developed through
the testimony of an Elementary teacher who worked
at a Rural school of Paipa, with the “Escuela Nueva”
   
the roles she performed when teaching English, bea-
ring in mind that she had not been prepared academi-
cally to give any instruction in this foreign language.
     
that were held in a Study Group composed by this
teacher-participant, four more elementary teachers
working in the same municipality and, me as resear-
cher and member of the group. Three reasons nouris-
hed this research: Teachers in most of the elementary
schools of Paipa were neither prepared for teaching
a foreign language nor they had studied English dee-
ply. Secondly, the teacher development is an impor-
tant issue to improve the teaching of English in any
 
role of the teachers themselves working collaborati-
vely, through some actions such as a Study Group.
Key Words:     
   
Teacher’s role..
*This article is based on a Thesis presented as a requirement for obtai-
ning the Master Degree in Language Teaching at Universidad Pedagó-
gica y Tecnológica de Colombia (U.P.T.C.) -Tunja, in 2009.
** Master in Language Teaching at U.P.T.C. (2009). Specialist in
Applied Lingüistics to the Teaching of English at Universidad La Gran
Colombia (2000). Bachelor Degree at Education (Spanish-French) at
U.P.T.C. (1991).
Quaestiones Disputatae
N° 9 pp. 101 - 110 julio - diciembre 2011Tunja - Colombia
Recibido: 28 de agosto de 2011 Aprobado: 25 de octub re de 2011

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