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English Language Education In Honduras_ Opportunity Adventure O.Pdf, Kate E. Kedley
English Language Education In Honduras_ Opportunity Adventure O.Pdf, Kate E. Kedley
Kate Kedley
Research suggests that teaching in international settings fosters professional growth and promotes tolerance for working in multicultural and linguistically diverse classrooms for U.S. teachers upon returning to the U.S. to work in schools. These studies portray teaching abroad as an unproblematic and neutral project, and narrowly focus on the benefit to the individual teacher during their temporary stay in a foreign country and when returning home to the U.S. Absent from these studies are two groups: 1) teachers from the U.S. who work in non-governmental organizations and private school settings abroad, but have no pedagogical training, and 2) host country …