Narrativas de Participantes del Programa Fulbright FLTA sobre su Experiencia Intercultural y Profesional

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Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-5769
Lizeth Andrea Martínez-Burgos
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-2747

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Este artículo informa los resultados de un estudio de indagación narrativa sobre programas de intercambio, conciencia intercultural y desarrollo profesional en ocho exparticipantes del programa Fulbright de Asistente de Enseñanza de Idiomas Extranjeros FLTA. Este estudio utilizó narrativas escritas para recopilar datos de ocho participantes del programa de becas FLTA que pertenecieron a la cohorte 2017-2018. Los resultados de este estudio mostraron que luego de ser un FLTA, los participantes mejoraron sus habilidades lingüísticas en inglés; se hicieron más conscientes de sus prácticas docentes al implementar y adaptar diferentes metodologías de enseñanza, experimentaron una interacción intercultural y entendieron mejor las diferencias culturales, lo que fomentó su desarrollo personal y profesional como profesores de inglés en sus países de origen.

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Velásquez-Hoyos, A. P., & Martínez-Burgos, L. A. (2023). Narrativas de Participantes del Programa Fulbright FLTA sobre su Experiencia Intercultural y Profesional. HOW Journal, 30(2), 13–31. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.30.2.737
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Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos, Universidad de Caldas

She is a full time professor at the Department of Foreign Languages of  Universidad de Caldas. She holds a MA in English Didactics from Universidad de Caldas and a BA in English Language Teaching from Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. She was a Fulbright scholar at Ferrum College Virginia 2017-2018. .

Lizeth Andrea Martínez-Burgos, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

She holds a Master in Education and a Bachelor degree in Basic Education with emphasis in Humanities: English and Spanish from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. She is a part time professor in the Bilingual Program at Fundación Universitaria Compensar and an English Teacher in the language center at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. She was a Fulbright scholar at Gardner Webb University, North Carolina, in 2017-2018.

 

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