Open AccessA Collaborative Autoethnography on Raciolinguistic Experiences and the Construction of Linguistic Identities During an Intercultural Exchange
Author(s) -
María Paula Campos Campos,
Stephany Garzón Roa,
María Paula Méndez,
Jairo Enrique CastañedaTrujillo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gist : education and learning research journal/gist education and learning research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-8391
pISSN - 1692-5777
DOI - 10.26817/16925777.976
Subject(s) - autoethnography , context (archaeology) , sensibility , identity (music) , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , sociology , vocabulary , pedagogy , ideology , psychology , aesthetics , gender studies , political science , computer science , history , art , philosophy , archaeology , artificial intelligence , politics , law
This research is a Collaborative Autoethnography based on personal experiences as Au Pairs in the United States. It aims to analyze the contributions of an intercultural exchange towards the construction of the teacher’s identity. It also seeks to analyze the current foreign language teaching practices in Colombia. We achieved more significant English teaching insights from our reflections, considering a flexible language structure, more comprehensive vocabulary, and English variety. Besides, this life-changing exposed ourselves to a target context that enriched our global notions and enhanced a new linguistic identity. Two years of living abroad made us think about a different teaching ideology founded on developing interest and sensibility for diverse cultures accepting broader linguistic features of the language. The results support the idea that educators shift those traditional strategies to more context-bound and intercultural ones to meet today’s needs and place the language as a means of co-construction of reality.