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Return Migration as an Answer to Face the Need of English Teachers in Mexico: Challenges and Realities
Irasema Mora-Pablo * imora@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-8532-5522 * ResearcherID: R-1524-2018
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, MEXICO
M. Martha Lengeling * lengelin@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0002-2570-5002 * ResearcherID: R-5491-2018
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, MEXICO
Edgar Emmanuell García-Ponce * ee.garcia@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0002-5414-3862
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, MEXICO
Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2019, 2(1), 7-18 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0201.02007m
Online Published Date: 5 July 2019
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
ARTICLE (Full Text - PDF)
KEY WORDS: English teaching, return migration, National English Program, education system.
ABSTRACT:
Migration has been part of the history of Mexico and the United States for many years. In this article, we aim to address the experiences of young return migrants who teach English as a foreign language in public schools in Mexico. They lived a number of years in the United States and recently returned to Mexico. We incorporate the voices of these participants into our own to give the reader a window into the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in Mexico. Through qualitative research and following a narrative approach, results show how these return migrants become English teachers, how they relate to the two educational systems, and how they see their future as professionals. Conclusion address that with each case there is complex story that leads to other possibilities and as such may be a wider issue of social transition through migration.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Irasema Mora-Pablo, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, Calzada de Guadalupe s/n; Zona Centro; Guanajuato, Gto., C.P. 36000, MEXICO E-mail: imora@ugto.mx.
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