THE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF “THE SELF AND THE OTHER” OF EFL TEACHERS AND THEIR REFUGEE STUDENTS” IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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This study aims to investigate the concepts of “the Self” and “the Other” through the act of reflexivity in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context during the Covid-19 pandemic through two different groups; EFL teachers, and refugee EFL students. The study also focuses on examining how these conceptualizations reflect on EFL teachers’ language teaching practices with refugee students; together with understanding what challenges these conceptualizations create for the refugee EFL students in different aspects. Understanding such conceptualizations provide suggestions for teacher education programs in issues dealing with ethnically diverse teaching contexts with refugee students together with contributing to the EFL Teacher Education literature by providing insights on ideologies constructed both by EFL teachers and refugee-backgrounded language learners. The study investigated the mentioned issues at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it was the first academic year of face-to-face education after the online education period, the study also focused on the experiences of online education and the Covid-19 process in a retrospective way. In order to investigate these focal points, following an interpretive research approach, a multiple case study design was adopted to critically examine both EFL teachers and refugee students. The study adopted a variety of data collection tools to achieve triangulation purposes such as semi-structured interviews, face-to-face classroom observations and reflexive journals. The findings of the study reveal conceptualizations of the Self and the Other for both cases in a context specific way.

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the Self and the Other, reflexivity, EFL teachers, refugee students, EFL Teacher Education

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K. Orsdemir, “THE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF “THE SELF AND THE OTHER” OF EFL TEACHERS AND THEIR REFUGEE STUDENTS” IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.