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		<title>What&#8217;s my thesis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A thesis for the PhD must form a distinctive contribution to the knowledge&#8221; Here we are starting the year of the dragon and I have made the resolution to hand in my full draft by December this year.Yes, the time has come and no more fluffing, but serious work has to be done. What do I need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=354&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do I blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I was one panelist at  a seminar on blogging at CEDAM. It was a very interesting conversation about blogging, types of blogs, and various uses. I was asked my motivation to write blogs and as  a blogger this is my answer. Why do I write blogs?  I started writing my blog The adventure to become a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=342&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be or not to be&#8230; a researcher?</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-researcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be or not to be&#8230; a researcher. That´s the question! identity issues? Well, as part of the PhD experience I have definitively been crafting a new identity: an identity which represents the practices and self of being  a learner, an academic, and a researcher. In these almost two years as a PhD student I have struggled first to understand what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=331&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011: the year of the code!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/?p=323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I am back in my office with  the Coding manual for qualitative researchers in one hand and my data on the other and I have got this feeling of what do I do now? I collected heaps of data: interviews, documents, observations and artifacts. Now it is time to clean the data and get it ready [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=323&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to finish my data collection process and the question arises: Is the data collected enough to answer my research questions? I guess if I want to answer that I have to start from the beginning: my research question. How do pre-service teachers of English learn how to teach in the Chilean context? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=317&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding a very complex activity!</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/understanding-a-very-complex-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/?p=308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a teacher  of English for fifteen years. I have been a teacher educator for ten years. I have been engaged in the activities of learning how to teach, teaching English and teaching  how to teach for a long time.All this motivated myself to follow a PhD and study the activity of learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=308&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The art of interviewing!</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/the-art-of-interviewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have started interviewing the participants of my study and I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled! It&#8217;s so exciting to listen and talk to teachers and their views that motivate even more my determination to do this research.Interviewing can be tiring and time consuming, but it is such a powerful tool to get people&#8217;s views that I would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=304&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fieldwork!</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/fieldwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am in Chile to do my fieldwork. It is been 16 months since I started my PhD, and data collection is a crucial stage for my study. I have got 12 weeks to get the necessary data that can illuminate the activity of learning how to teach English as a foreign language in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=301&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the pedagogical Imperative?</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/what-is-the-pedagogical-imperative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language teacher education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago I attended two courses as part of the UNSW summer school. The morning course was Classroom-based Research for Language Teachers by David Nunan and the afternoon course  was Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative by James Lantolf. The classroom-based Research for Language Teachers course dealt with topics such as the nature of qualitative and quantitative research together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=286&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to &#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://eflteachereducation.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/back-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malba Barahona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it! After struggling with the writing, the poster layout and so forth. I managed to present my poster at the AARE conference successfully. It was very self  assuring and inspiring. The discussions with other academics challenged my views, but also confirmed that I&#8217;m on the right path. My learnings from attending the AARE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflteachereducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9859531&amp;post=281&amp;subd=eflteachereducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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