Addressing Students' Imagined Identities in the EFL Classroom
Previous research found that addressing students' imagined identities in the EFL class can provide teachers with improvement plans on how to focus their lessons and on how it is directly connected with the students' investment in learning a foreign language. This dissertation aims to explo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:249555 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/249555 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | EIL EFL Imagined Identities Investment Globalization Professional Development Anglès com a llengua internacional Anglès com a llengua estrangera Identitats Imaginades Inversió Globalització Formació del professorat |
| Sumario: | Previous research found that addressing students' imagined identities in the EFL class can provide teachers with improvement plans on how to focus their lessons and on how it is directly connected with the students' investment in learning a foreign language. This dissertation aims to explore which might be the benefits of addressing students' imagined identities in the context of a Catalan secondary high school. According to researchers, globalisation and the process of imagining play a major role on the concept of investment. Two lessons were implemented in a fourth of ESO group so as to investigate students' perceptions regarding a few issues where imagined identities, the role of English and investment framed the whole investigation. A guided debate, linguistic autobiographies and a questionnaire were the data collection tools used to obtain different data and information from participants. Results suggest that this research is essential both for teaching improvement and to have a deeper knowledge on students' personal perceptions and how participants' investment relates to their imagined identities and the role English may have in their future projects. |
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