Yeisson Casallas Cardenas

2018265044
Race and English Language Teaching and Learning

Diary entry 7

We learnt about how ethnic identity refers to the subjective experience embracing the feelings,
experiences, and behaviors through which people position their membership in a single or
multiple ethnic groups. Considering how ethnic identity might be implicated in L2 learning. We
first define and contextualize ethnic identity and its possible relationships to language. We
remember that in U.S. higher education, the number of students of color abroad is still
disproportionately low.

Moreover, there is limited literature examining how race and ethnicity shapes experiences
abroad, despite study abroad research highlighting how identity negotiation influences
language learning in the study abroad context.

While study abroad is considered an integral part of the U.S. higher education and language
learning experience, it is surprising the low number of students of color who study abroad
(Anya, 2017; Guerrero, 2006) and the fact that study abroad participants are still typically
White, middle to upper class women (Picard, Bernardino, & Ehigiator, 2009).

In this class the group 2 had to talk about the experiences of two black students in a school
where most of the population were white students, they said that they were often bother or
ignored because of their skin color, they had less participation and less opportunity to be heard
than others

What we realized is that there has always been a racist speech that seeks to discriminate those
groups and fit the societies for making and keeping a hierarchy, nowadays different contexts of
the societies still make difficult for blacks to have more opportunities and chance for being
success not only in the second language also in another areas. But we can conclude for sure
that is known clearly that there are not differences in the cognitive processes, because blacks
do not learn languages any differently from anyone else, sometimes the language classrooms
fail to this communities with negative experiences or poor environments, unfavorable and
racist teachers and classmates attitudes of course, also the way that the curriculum is
composed, those are mainly the reason why through the African American history in an
institutional system with failures and injustice affects their learning process.

INFORMACION TOMADA DE:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1178978.pdf