An exploration of structure and agency through the English language learning initiative "ACCESS" (Record no. 20070)

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Personal name Bonazza, Ruth Krista
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Title An exploration of structure and agency through the English language learning initiative "ACCESS"
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Beirut
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. American University of Beirut - Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
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Extent 85 pages
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General note النوع : Mémoire
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Summary, etc. This thesis explores teachers' discourse around English language education, and seeks to address the possibility of agency within dominant structure by examining the English Access Microscholarship Program (ACCESS), a US Department of State funded English language learning program in Lebanese public schools. I compare Bourdieu’s idea of a restricted agency within habitus, which is echoed within theories of linguistic imperialism, to the idea of more specific and individual performances of agency, as seen in the works by Giroux and Canagarajah. My results consider the questions: How are the English language in Lebanon and global English language education initiatives such as the Access program discussed by those involved? What is the degree of agency within these structures? Methodology for this work includes unobtrusive research methods, structured interviews with program administrators and teacher trainers, and unstructured, in-depth interviews with ten teachers in the program. Through the discourse of the teachers, I locate three overarching structures: the structure of the English language globally, the structure of the Lebanese public schools where the teachers give the program and finally, the structure of the program itself. This thesis looks beyond the idea that structure is all-encompassing and wholly dominant and recognizes that there could be moments of resistance or performativity that indicate that teachers can play active roles in choosing which parts of structures to internalize and transmit and are in some ways able to filter programs such as Access to fit local needs without completely subscribing to the program goals.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element ACCESS
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Topical term or geographic name entry element ACCESS
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Topical term or geographic name entry element ACCESS
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English Language Education Curricula
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Topical term or geographic name entry element L’enseignement de la Langue Anglaise Curriculum
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Topical term or geographic name entry element sociologie de l'éducation
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology of Education
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Topical term or geographic name entry element تعليم اللغة الانكليزية المناهج
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Topical term or geographic name entry element علم اجتماع التربية
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Koha item type بيانات الهيئة اللبنانية للعلوم التربوية

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