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Functions of Teachers’ Narratives in EFL Classroom Contexts
Funciones de las narraciones de los profesores en contextos de clase de inglés como lengua extranjera
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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v25n1.99190Keywords:
intercultural function, functions of narratives, moral function, pedagogical function, teachers' narratives (en)funciones de las narraciones, función intercultural, función moral, función pedagógica, narraciones de los profesores (es)
Although narratives have been widely used and investigated in the second/foreign language literature, studying narratives in authentic classroom contexts and their functions has received comparatively little attention. To fill this gap, the present study examines the narratives produced naturally by teachers within English-as-a-foreign-language classroom contexts to find out what functions these narratives serve. The participants were five Iranian teachers teaching general English courses in a private language institute. Following the principles of qualitative research in data analysis, 30 hours of naturally occurring data were first transcribed, then their narratives were identified. After analyzing the 23 determined narratives in the dataset, three functions of narratives emerged, namely, moral, pedagogical, and intercultural.
El estudio de las narraciones en contextos reales de aula y sus funciones han recibido comparativamente poca atención. En un esfuerzo por llenar este vacío, el presente estudio examina las narraciones producidas naturalmente por profesores en contextos de la clase de inglés para averiguar qué funciones cumplen aquellas. Los participantes fueron cinco profesores iraníes de inglés como lengua extranjera. Siguiendo los principios de la investigación cualitativa en el análisis de datos, primero se transcribieron 30 horas de datos que ocurrieron naturalmente y luego se identificaron las narraciones en ellos. Después de analizar las veintitrés narraciones identificadas en el conjunto de datos, surgieron tres funciones de las narrativas, a saber: moral, pedagógica e intercultural.
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