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An Auto-Ethnographic Study Of Foreign And Native Language Education In The United States Of America, The Dominican Republic, And Spain, Mary Margaret Hawkins May 2018

An Auto-Ethnographic Study Of Foreign And Native Language Education In The United States Of America, The Dominican Republic, And Spain, Mary Margaret Hawkins

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The paper is a reflexive ethnography documenting the researcher’s change and growth “as a result of doing fieldwork” (Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, p. 278) in the United States of America, the Dominican Republic, and Spain. The purpose of this research is to examine and reflect on the researcher’s journey of acquiring language proficiency in Spanish, developing cultural competence, and navigating cross-cultural interactions. This paper also explores how readily students may be able to access language education in both the native and foreign realms and examines the emphasis placed on language education in each of the countries, as observed by …