Papers by Martha Lengeling
Esta obra se concentra en cuatro temas cruciales de la formación de docentes, tanto antes como du... more Esta obra se concentra en cuatro temas cruciales de la formación de docentes, tanto antes como durante el servicio y en la enseñanza en diferentes áreas y niveles educativos. En primer lugar, se aborda el asunto de las creencias que los docentes tienen sobre el proceso educativo, las cuales parecen influir en la práctica profesional que estos desarrollan y, por lo tanto, deberían recibir la atención explícita de los procesos de formación de docentes que deseen promover prácticas específicas. El segundo tema de la obra es la relación entre la formación de docentes y la política pública que la rige. En particular, se analizan las reformas curriculares implementadas por varias licenciaturas en universidades privadas colombianas, en respuesta a reformas a la normatividad sobre las condiciones de calidad que a las que deben ajustarse todas las licenciaturas del país. El tercer tema analizado es en qué medida los docentes en educación superior van más allá del dominio de su saber discipli...
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The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Jan 18, 2018
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Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2018
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Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
Although an international teaching practicum is assumed to broaden teacher candidates’ cultural, ... more Although an international teaching practicum is assumed to broaden teacher candidates’ cultural, linguistic, and pedagogical knowledge, the nature of this growth and its relation to teacher education practices have yet to be fully explored. Using a sociocultural perspective and drawing on the concepts of teacher socialization and a growth mindset, this qualitative case study investigates the experiences of a U.S. preservice teacher teaching English in a Mexican primary school. Analysis of teaching observations, the participant’s reflections, and an interview revealed the teacher’s growing sensitivity to the teaching context. She gradually recognized the differences between teaching English in the two countries, prompting a shift in pedagogy to one more compatible with teaching English as a foreign language. The importance of teaching context on teacher socialization is also examined.
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TESOL Journal, 2021
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El mundo del libro: tesoros bibliográficos en la Biblioteca Armando Olivares, 2014, ISBN 978-607-441-305-2, págs. 97-108, 2014
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Developing Habits of Noticing in Literacy and Language Classrooms, 2019
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Higher Education of Social Science, 2014
This study investigated how a small group of part-time, non-tenured language teachers, at a publi... more This study investigated how a small group of part-time, non-tenured language teachers, at a public university in central Mexico, responded to the opportunity of publishing their first research article. Based upon a qualitative study we explore the teachers’ discourses and the institution’s to understand the teachers’ positions towards this research project and how these teachers see their future teacher development within a specific context they share. The purpose of the project was to encourage nontenured teachers who, within the institution, have limited opportunities and financial support to develop as researchers. The latter is based on the reality that throughout Mexico as well as other parts of the world and within many disciplines, academic publishing is a strategy used to measure professional development among university teachers. Findings suggest that carrying out research and publishing are not participants’ first priorities despite their interest in gaining tenure.
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Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Jan 10, 2011
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Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
Nowadays, English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers needed to adapt their practices to continu... more Nowadays, English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers needed to adapt their practices to continue teaching the foreign language with the use of different emerging technologies and online platforms. This required them to develop a greater number of digital skills to promote students’ language production and achievement. Drawing on evidence which suggests that task repetition is beneficial for developing oral production in speaking and writing tasks, this exploratory study investigates the fluency and accuracy demonstrated by seven Mexican EFL students from a state university in a monologue narrative task performed on WhatsApp following a task repetition design. Fluency and accuracy metrics show that these skills appear to fluctuate in the students during the performance of the task. Interestingly, they also suggest that only fluency increased as the weeks went by, while accuracy development was limited. These results raise questions about the dynamic nature of fluency and how it may...
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How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc... more How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System
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La formación y competencias del profesorado de ELE: XXVI Congreso Internacional ASELE, 2016, ISBN 978-84-617-4539-5, págs. 551-557, 2016
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Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
Along the evolving teaching journey, teachers experience a series of events that allow them to tr... more Along the evolving teaching journey, teachers experience a series of events that allow them to transition from novice to expert. Throughout the years, such transition has been the object of theories and debates about how this process is carried out, and when it is that teachers move from one stage to the other. This article presents a study of a Mexican teacher of English and examines the professional-developmental stages based on Huberman’s (1993) career cycle model. Its aim is to understand the challenges and decisions a teacher may encounter in her or his career. The article shows the realities a teacher faces by exploring the concepts of emotions, identity, socialization, and agency. Moreover, it questions the belief that teachers achieve expertise through accumulating years of practice.
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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2015
The data in this article come from a two-year study that examines the transnational immigrant liv... more The data in this article come from a two-year study that examines the transnational immigrant lives of young adults whose families resided for a number of years in the United States, always maintaining close ties to their country of origin, Mexico, until they decided or were forced to return. These participants acquired English as children of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Using a narrative approach, findings depict how immigrant students shaped their identities through ambivalent feelings towards both countries and how this identity construction shaped their interest in becoming English teachers or rejecting the language to the point that they forgot the language they had learned in the United States. Their transnational experiences of living in and between two countries appeared to be at the forefront of their construction of identity, defining who they are and who they want to be. This work suggests that transnationals possess an important cultural and linguistic capita...
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For decades, task-based research has long used complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as dimensio... more For decades, task-based research has long used complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as dimensions which determine and benchmark the inherent multidimensional processes of L2 performance. However, this previous research has been mainly conducted under experimental methodologies which control and modify classroom conditions and behaviours to an extent that do not reflect teaching and learning practices that are commonly initiated in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. In response to this, the present study set out to explore the effects of two writing tasks (argumentative and narrative) on EFL learners' CAF constructs during uncontrolled classroom practices. Drawing on metrics which index the levels of CAF, the findings show significant variability and trade-off effects in the levels of the three language performance areas. In exploring the transcribed data, the evidence demonstrates how the learners' different goals and orientations can also be influential on th...
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PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This study aimed at exploring the processes of teacher socialization and identity formation of ni... more This study aimed at exploring the processes of teacher socialization and identity formation of nine English as a foreign language teachers at public schools in central Mexico. These teachers began their careers in the National English Program in Basic Education. Qualitative research and narrative inquiry were used as a basis for this research. The data revealed that the teachers’ socialization was somewhat informal in that little was required from them to gain entrance into the program. Once teaching, the participants dealt with challenges in their teaching contexts and the program. From these challenges, the teachers were able to make decisions concerning their future as teachers, forming and imagining their identity.
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