Exploring The Efl Experience Of Non-Traditional Students In a High School In Pereira
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Exploring the EFL experience of non-traditional students in a high school in Pereira
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
People in Colombia usually finish theirhigh school at the age of 17-18. However, there is just a part of the population that culminates their formal education when they are adults. This phenomenonis due to some learners suffer problematic situations that impede them to continue the studies in the usual parameters.
The decision to study in thenight shift emerges for three reasons: some learners have to pay their studies with their own money for that, they have to work the whole day. Other learners–especially women- are in charge of their family, so they have to care of their children and this is an obstacle to study in the daytime shift. There are alsosome students that desire to accelerate their learning process in order to obtain the high school diploma faster.
The experience to study in the night shiftaffects one way or another, learners’ self-efficacy beliefs. Harmer (2007) proposes two factors in which adult learners may suffer some problems related withtheir perceptions of them as learners: the learners’ prior experiences at the school and their capacity in learning, specifically English learning.
It isimportant to mention that research about the EFL experience of non-traditional students is someway new in the Colombian context. There is little researchhave been conducted in different settings from the Colombian situation. In this sense, those results are not applicable to non-traditional Colombian learners.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
People in Colombia usually finish theirhigh school at the age of 17-18. However, there is just a part of the population that culminates their formal education when they are adults. This phenomenonis due to some learners suffer problematic situations that impede them to continue the studies in the usual parameters.
The decision to study in thenight shift emerges for three reasons: some learners have to pay their studies with their own money for that, they have to work the whole day. Other learners–especially women- are in charge of their family, so they have to care of their children and this is an obstacle to study in the daytime shift. There are alsosome students that desire to accelerate their learning process in order to obtain the high school diploma faster.
The experience to study in the night shiftaffects one way or another, learners’ self-efficacy beliefs. Harmer (2007) proposes two factors in which adult learners may suffer some problems related withtheir perceptions of them as learners: the learners’ prior experiences at the school and their capacity in learning, specifically English learning.
It isimportant to mention that research about the EFL experience of non-traditional students is someway new in the Colombian context. There is little researchhave been conducted in different settings from the Colombian situation. In this sense, those results are not applicable to non-traditional Colombian learners.
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