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Subject: Re: Question 4

Author:
Mar�lia Salgado

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Date Posted: 04:30:50 08/22/10 Sun
In reply to: Luciano Valadares 's message, "Question 4 ( First part - article 1)" on 14:34:03 08/21/10 Sat

>Hi Luciano,
I wrote something about racism. Do you thing it is important to this question? take a look....

>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.

One important fact that happened during the research period was the prejudice suffered by the two black teachers in relation to the students and some co-workers. May and Ivy were the only two black female teachers in the Hsinchu Program during the school year of 2006. May was very upset that School C was turning Ivy down; Mei-ling remarked that May accused Ivy�s colleagues of being racist in one of their casual conversations. In one informal conversation with the first author, May also talked about her sensitivity towards racism in these words, �I�m a very sensitive person. When students misbehave, I sometimes think that �Are you misbehaving because I am black?� (fieldnote, 2006/12/05). This incident may have interfered in their work discoraging one of then to continue teaching in taiwan.
>
>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 ( 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