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Subject: Question 4 ( First part - article 1)

Author:
Luciano Valadares

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Date Posted: 14:34:03 08/21/10 Sat

I�m still waiting for Luciana Amaral�s answer to question 4. But this a version of the first part of it (article 1). Please, give opinions and/or add more information. Thanks.

4- How important is the description of procedures and methods adopted in the study being reported.

The description of procedures and methods that were chosen in the research were very important in both articles. First, to clarify to the readers what was being done. Second, to justify the importance of their work and to show how they had reached those results.

Article 1 is a research based on a qualitative study. The data collection had begun in August , 2006 and lasted until June, 2007. The study focused on three South African teachers� performance in the classroom, their background information and their previous professional experience.

After analysing the data collected the authors conclude that the common problem suffered by those three teachers was their doubt on their accent. It was also showed how ironic was the hiring procedure of the Taiwanese School. In other words, those three teachers were hired for being considered English native speakers, and so they had also suffered for not sounding genuine native speakers. Therefore, the only conception accepted by Taiwanese people was that English speakers need to sound like Americans.

The final conclusion that the authors had taken is that to students in Taiwan benefit from this program, (which hires foreign English teachers) the teachers should be more prepared to deal with unfamiliar situations in a new environment.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Question 4	Mar�lia Salgado	04:30:50 08/22/10 Sun

Re: Question 4 ( First part - article 1)	Mauricio Horto	11:43:59 08/22/10 Sun
Re: Question 4 ( First part - article 1) -- Mauricio Horto (answer improvement), 12:04:45 08/23/10 Mon