3 research outputs found
Nativespeakerism and english teachers’pedagogical discourses
This research explored teachers’ and institutional pedagogical discourses regarding Nativespeakerism in an informal teaching setting in Bogotá through the analysis of semi-structured interviews. The purpose was to understand EFL teachers’ pedagogical discourses, their reconceptualizations, alienation and resistance attitudes, plus unveil power relationships when they face Nativespeakerism and the neoliberal discourse of standardization. This paper is framed within the Critical Applied Linguistics field and it attempts to approach the phenomenon under study from a poststructuralist perspective and the qualitative descriptive research (Merriam, 2019).Abstract
The native speaker fallacy elicits both support and resistance within ELT settings. Nativespeakerism (NS) seems to create alienation and resistance mechanisms towards teachers’ and institutions’ pedagogical discourses in an informal teaching setting. The goal of this project is to understand teachers’ pedagogical discourses regarding NS within an EFL setting, to identify NS aspects within EFL teachers’ and institutions’ pedagogical discourses and to analyze relations of power derived from that dichotomy. This qualitative descriptive investigation took the critical perspective (Merriam, 2009) and the post-structuralist approach (Kincheloe, 2008) as frameworks of reference. The theoretical framework discusses the most relevant theory that backed up this qualitative investigation. In addition to, participants involved in this research were 3 English teachers from an EFL teaching setting, and the instruments were semi-structured interviews used to collect teachers’ pedagogical discourses regarding NS, and Grounded Theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) was the data analysis approach applied to systematize data. To illustrate, two findings contracted in this study were: first, the way mainstream pedagogical discourses impact in the same way to teachers and institutions; and second, how non-native teachers develop pedagogical positionings regarding the native speaker privileges and upon NS. Finally, findings displayed as conclusions that inner-circle countries are set as norm-providing models with an ELT industry exported to the expanding circle countries which turn only into non-dependent countries or consumers.
Key Words: Nativespeakerism, teachers, institutions, pedagogical discourses, alienation, resistance, self-positioning.Ningun
Biodiversity 2016. Status and Trends of Colombian Continental Biodiversity
This third volume of the annual report on biodiversity in Colombia continues the editorial line that begun in 2014. Using novel analytical and graphic proposals, these reports have the goal of communicating the contents to a broad public, making it available for discussion without sacrificing the quality of information. The challenge of communication continues to be a major part of the institutional project, and the new languages with which we are learning to communicate with society and other institutions are an experiment that we expect to be increasingly gratifying. The report for 2017 is already under construction and it counts on new digital technologies so the power of a colombian vital connection may be entirely expressed.
The included content evidences that we are still far away from having a systematic follow-up about most of the topics related to the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services, which is the only way to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and investments made by society. In fact, a limitation that is recognized is that of identifying positive or negative changes that affect different levels of organization of life on this planet; therefore, our global navigation route of the Aichi targets is still to be verified.
An additional purpose of this process includes the invitation of all Colombians to contribute in constructing and maintaining basic monitoring indicators for management since it is impossible to identify long-term trends of flora and fauna in the country without the support of institutions, researchers, and citizens. This challenge is immense in a megadiverse country such as Colombia. For this reason, the report will continue to open its pages to experts, and even indigenous peoples or local communities, for them to present their perspectives about environmental change and its effects on biodiversity in a systematic and documented manner. This has the objective of stimulating the commitment of everyone in the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The only way of overcoming the risk of extinction is through the active process of social learning in which all sectors assume a part of the complex responsibility in protecting the forms of life of the country, a roughly counted tenth of all creatures on Earth.
I thank all the people that contributed in this Report, those who have supported us in the phases of production, and all readers and users, who are the ultimate judges of its utility.Bogotá, D. C
Biodiversidad 2016. Estado y Tendencias de la Biodiversidad Continental de Colombia
Esta tercera entrega del reporte anual de la biodiversidad en Colombia profundiza en la línea editorial iniciada el año 2014 mediante nuevas propuestas analíticas y gráficas, con la intención de garantizar que la información llegue a todos los públicos y pueda ser discutida de manera amena sin sacrificio de calidad. La apuesta comunicativa sigue siendo central en el proyecto institucional y los nuevos lenguajes con los que estamos aprendiendo a conversar con la sociedad y las instituciones son un experimento que esperamos sea cada vez más satisfactorio: ya estamos construyendo la versión 2017 con el apoyo de las nuevas tecnologías digitales de manera que la potencia de la conexión vital colombiana
se exprese en toda su capacidad.
Por los contenidos es evidente que aún distamos mucho de tener una capacidad de seguimiento sistemático para la mayoría de temas relativos a la gestión de la biodiversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos, la única manera de evaluar si las medidas de política y las inversiones que realiza la sociedad están teniendo los efectos deseados. De hecho, parte de las limitaciones reconocidas por robustamente los cambios positivos o negativos que afectan los diferentes niveles de organización de la vida planetaria, por lo cual las mismas metas de Aichi, nuestra carta de navegación global,
están pendientes de verificación.
Un propósito adicional de este proceso es la invitación a todos los colombianos para contribuir con la construcción y alimentación de los indicadores básicos de seguimiento a la gestión, ya que es imposible identificar las tendencias de largo plazo en que están inmersas la flora y fauna colombianas sin el apoyo de las instituciones, los investigadores y los ciudadanos: en el país de la megadiversidad, el reto es inmenso. Por este motivo, este reporte irá abriendo sus páginas a expertos, incluso indígenas o de comunidades locales, para que presenten de manera sistemática y documentada sus perspectivas del cambio ambiental y sus efectos en la biodiversidad, con el ánimo de promover el compromiso de todos en su gestión. La única manera de superar el riesgo de extinción es mediante un activo proceso de aprendizajes sociales que haga que todos los sectores asuman una parte
de la compleja responsabilidad que significa proteger todas las formas de vida del país, una décima parte mal contada de las planetarias.
Agradezco a las decenas de personas que contribuyeron con este reporte, a quienes nos han apoyado en todas las etapas de producción y a sus lectores y usuarios, quienes son en último término los jueces de su utilidad.Bogotá, D. C