Analyzing communicative issues of Mexican pre-service EFL teachers in American summer camps
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2014-02
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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"Cultural exchange programs are one of the ways of being in contact with
language. Most of Pre-service EFL teachers from the Modern Languages major
(LEMO) tend to apply for this program to get a job in an American summer camp.
Although summer camp programs are mostly offered as a cultural exchange,
participants tend to ignore it astonished with the fact of travelling, being in another
country plus the lack of information provided from the sponsors.
No matter the lack of information, participants go to summer camps without
knowing what they will face. Consequently, participants experience
negative aspects which they use to link to their lack of English proficiency making
evident problems regarding communication. This research aims to explore pre-service EFL teachers‟ experiences from LEMO who have already attended to an American summer camps. By analyzing participants‟ experiences it is intended to find out communicative problems that might
have produced an uncomfortable environment, frustration aspects in students while
staying in a camp, the strategies to overcome such problems as well as to discover
whether they were aware of what a cultural exchange program demands or not."
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