Reflections of the 11th Graders at técnico industrial multipropósito school About the perceptions of the Anglophone culture

Abstract

Focused on a qualitative study, this research describes, analyzes and interprets the 11th graders‘ perceptions at Técnico Industrial Multipropósito School in Cali about the Anglophone culture; taking as a reference some aspects of the United States‘ and Great Britain‘s cultures, such as: typical food, clothing, music and lifestyle; as well as some aspects about the Colombian culture, through a didactic sequence addressing interculturality in the English as a foreign language classroom. First, the context in which this research is carried out is presented. Subsequently, the methodological process to address interculturality in the classroom is explained, taking as a starting point the students‘ perceptions related to the Anglophone culture collected in the diagnostic survey; in order to analyze what could happen with those perceptions after the researchers‘ intervention and the application of the final survey, which showed that their perceptions had already become stereotypes. Finally, results and conclusions are presented, an English as a foreign language classroom where the integration of aspects about the Anglophone culture in the classroom with linguistic topics developed in class is not observed; and thus, students‘ perceptions about that culture are not related to the whole reality of the same one. Furthermore, some recommendations are tackled concerning the implementation of longer activities in the institution, based on an intercultural vision of language teaching