ERIC Number: EJ1440025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-1085-4568
EISSN: EISSN-2380-8144
Seeing Local Experiences through Global Eyes: Duoethnography and the Internationalization of Language Teacher Education
Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, v36 n2 p58-90 2024
This paper discusses the use of duoethnography in the internationalization of language teacher education, aiming at responding to the following questions: A) how may duoethnography support the internationalization of language teacher education? B) What aspects of language teachers' lives can be explored in dialogical encounters among language teachers and teachers-to-be from different countries? C) What (lasting) impacts may carrying out a duoethnography have on language teachers? Beyond explaining the process of designing an international research-based assignment (IRBA), which aimed at engaging in-service and pre-service language teachers from the U.S. and Brazil in exploring their linguistic experiences, the authors present the rationale and the theoretical basis for developing the IRBA and analyzing the duoethnographies: critical approaches to language teacher education, digital literacies and technology integration in educational praxis, teacher collaboration, and duoethnography as both a process and a method. The analysis revealed that duoethnography may be effective leading to reflection and contributing to issues of equality, mobility, and access.
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Study Abroad, International Cooperation, Student Experience, Teaching Experience, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Teacher Collaboration, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Teacher Educators
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States; Brazil
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