Narratives of seven teachers concerning the phenomenon of learning factors involved in the English classes
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Fierro Arenas, Juan Nicolas | 2023-04
Sociocultural and political factors play a significant role in language learning. Previous research
conducted from authors such as Kumaravadivelu (2006) and Vygotsky (1978) had found that the
Second Language Acquisition process brought with it a range of learning factors that affected
students on an internal and external level, but little attention has been paid to the perspectives of
undergraduate and graduate teachers in-depth concerning the effects that those learning factors
had over their second language acquisition process. The present qualitative phenomenology
study uses semi-structured interviews to collect data on five undergraduate and two graduate
foreign language teachers during their second language acquisition process. Data will be
analyzed using thematic analysis and it is expected that this study will unveil the learning factors
undergraduate and graduate teachers handle during their learning process. This would support
the notion that both undergraduate and graduate teachers are not aware of all the learning factors
involved in language learning which would bring more awareness to the pedagogical community
about the importance of learning about them.
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