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Ana Hortelano Montejano
Teaching English as a Non-Imperial Language in an Underprivileged Public School in Spain
This article summarizes the processes and findings of a 2-year collaborative action research (CAR) project that analyzed and aimed to counteract some of the most negative educational effects of English linguistic imperialism in the field of English language teaching (ELT) and, more concretely, in the context of English as a foreign language education in Spain. The CAR investigated the ramifications of this phenomenon in a primary school located in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city of València. The pedagogical alternative it embraced in order to reverse the underlying tenets of ELT under present-day neoliberal imperialism consisted in combining art and multimodality thr…
Mobilizing EFL student-teachers’ and primary EFL learners’ identity through funds of identity and identity texts
En este texto, se presentan brevemente el contenido y los resultados del proyecto de cooperación (en inglés Collaborative Action Research, CAR). El objetivo del proyecto es crear opciones de identidad alternativas para los maestros de EFL y los maestros de escuela primaria con el fin de crear una mayor participación en el proceso educativo. CAR cubrió dos rondas de solicitudes en dos años académicos consecutivos (2014/2015 y 2015/2016). Los participantes fueron un profesor universitario (Luis) de la Facultad de Lengua y Literatura de la Universidad de Valencia (España) y dos estudiantes (Ana y Violeta) que trabajaron como investigadores en el proyecto CAR durante su bachillerato de maestro …
Matter, Literacy, and English Language Teaching in an Underprivileged School in Spain
This article analyzes the processes and findings of a collaborative action research (CAR) project that aimed to analyze the potential of materiality to radically transform the way English was taught and learned in an underprivileged public school in Spain. The CAR drew on new materialisms and new literacy studies to explore the relationship between matter and English language teaching from socioeconomic, sociocultural, and technological perspectives. The main pedagogical strategy consisted of widening the quantity and quality of the material resources in the English classroom, precisely to draw a material link between the English classroom and the students' homes, communities, and the infor…