Sánchez Hernández, VerónicaEncinas Prudencio, María Teresa FátimaSánchez, Ixtaccihuatl José2022-05-252022-05-252021-12https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12371/15814"The present qualitative case study pursues to investigate three purposes. First, to explore the challenges that English novice teachers encountered at the beginning of their profession. Most novice teachers are part of the union in education, in Mexico the secretaria de educación publica (from now on SEP), and have a tenure in public secondary schools. Second, to find how challenges were solved. Finally, to know what are the factors that influenced novice teachers´ decision-making about their teaching practices. Therefore, to obtain the data two instruments were applied: an online questionnaire and one online focus group interview. Furthermore, the data analysis followed two views, the sociocultural and the language teaching awareness. Overall, the results have shown that participants´ initial challenge was being in charge of a group of people. Furthermore, novice teachers found students not motivated to learn the language, facilities which were not appropriate to the number of students, a mismatch with the book, teaching other subjects, and work location. Novice teachers solved the challenges with the refinement of their skills, most importantly, they had to trust, believed, and have confidence in themselves".pdfengHUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTAMaestros de inglésNuevos profesores--Estudio de casosMaestros de escuelas secundarias--México--PueblaMaestros de escuelas secundarias--ActitudesEducación--Metas y objetivosTesis de maestríaopenAccess